Quotes About Discovery

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Did you know that on one of the islands of Orkney, in the North of Scotland, there are some runes that when translated turned out to be Viking graffiti? Eight feet up a wall it says "A tall Viking wrote this." You gotta love that.

In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.

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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up for you.

When you lose interest in something, you must always consider the possibility that you've gotten what you came for; you have completed your mission.

You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.

How would it feel to forget about finding your big passion and enjoy the delightful fact that you can learn anything you like and your life will be filled with variety and excitement?

You might find the perfect combination of all your interests and have a very enjoyable career. Or you might discover that what you really love is learning itself.

If you're burned out, learning something new or doing something creative is the cure.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

I love to invent words but even when I think I've invented one or a new variation on a word, I often find that someone else has already made use of it.

When you're spontaneous, there's always the opportunity that you'll surprise yourself and discover something new.

The cravings of the soul of man before music and painting were discovered must have resembled the stutterings for impossible utterance in the dumb.

We say that science is in its infancy; it will never become decrepit, for if truth be infinite, there will always be new aspects of it to be discovered.

Then I sped across the prairies of ether and stood upon the moon. It was no longer luminous, its hardness hurt my feet; And I found that it had nothing either to sell or give me; Its empty frankness was brutal as a blow.

I have followed Silence from the belt of Orion to Berenice's curls -- then lost it in the laughter of my soul.

I met one man who refused to speak of the earth, and was always talking about "going on." I reminded him that if he went on far enough he would come back to the place from which he started.

I think a great book--leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on--is a book that describes the world in a way that has not been done before; and that is recognized by those who read it as telling new truths.

We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants--that needs--to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new traveler's checks, buy new souvenirs, order new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to french-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.