Quotes About Discovery

She meant to savor each turn of her traveling, loving the road and the trees and the houses and the small ugly towns, teasing herself with the notion that she might take it into her head to stop just anywhere and never leave again.

perhaps Charles and money found each other no matter how far apart they were, or perhaps Charles was engaged in systematically digging up every inch of our land.

They walked over to it and Brad bent down gingerly: It's a leg all right, he said.

Well I am here, I am at the heart, I have come through the maze--where is the secret I am to learn from my many agonies? Here I am, here I am, where is my reward? What have I earned, learned, spurned?

All the millions of things we possessed as a family were inside the house, but, inexorably, there came one shocking moment when we discovered that the house was full.

Era una sconosciuta in un mondo di sconosciuti ed erano sconosciuti anche quelli che si era lasciata alle spalle.

Perhaps we should move backward with courage, so as to understand what we really came from and who we were.

If we don't go forward, we won't find anything.

Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting.

When you get there, there is no there….

Fate will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

Wer hätte das gedacht! Wir haben eine Gynäkologin in unserer Mitte. Sie sind besorgt wegen Krankheitserregern

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

Therefore, let us not undervalue small signs; perhaps by means of them we will succeed in getting on the track of greater things.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

there is at least one book in you that cannot be written by anyone else but you. My advice is to dig deep and find

So many paths have led me astray . . . But now things are going to be different. I don't know what life is, but it is not loneliness.

It was as if I had been mute all my life and only now had discovered what words sounded like.

Only recently had he realized the way books could give a person wings.

stunned it. Santiago, schooled in the ways

Never waste a meal eating something boring when you could be trying something exciting. That's part of the joy of travel, because food is such a brilliant way of racking up great memories. And remember, it's hardly ever going to kill you.

In that moment, I knew I never wanted to stop travelling, and discovering. I knew that for as long as I could I needed to use each journey to enrich my mind, heart and life. I would take chances, go to strange places, and dive into the culture of the world. And I would never take it for granted.

necessity is the mother of invention, then