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Quotes About Discovery

I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.
~ John Coltrane
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
~ D. H. Lawrence
As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.
~ Nargis Fakhri
That's no moon," Kenobi breathed softly.
~ George Lucas
Everybody has talent it is just a matter of moving around until you discover what it is.
~ George Lucas
I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!
~ George MacDonald
I was a bookworm then, but when I came to know it, I woke among the butterflies.
~ George MacDonald
To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery.
~ George MacDonald
I lost myself, and if I hadn't found the beautiful lady, I should never have found myself.
~ George MacDonald
if there be such a thing as truth, every fresh doubt is yet another finger-post pointing towards its dwelling.
~ George MacDonald
Many a wrong, and it's curing song, many a road, and many an inn, Room to roam, but only one home, for all the world to win. George MacDonald, (Lilith)
~ George MacDonald
every question is a door-handle.
~ George MacDonald
Thus I, who set out to find my Ideal, came back rejoicing that I had lost my Shadow.
~ George MacDonald
Home is ever so far away in the palm of your hand, and how to get there it is of no use to tell you. But you will get there; you must get there; you have to get there. Everybody who is not at home, has to go home. You thought you were at home where I found you: if that had been your home, you could not have left it. Nobody can leave home.
~ George MacDonald
she might be treacherous too, but if I turned from every show of love lest it should be feigned, how was I ever to find the real love which must be somewhere in every world?
~ George MacDonald
A shudder ran through her from head to foot when she found that the thread was actually taking her into the hole out of which the stream ran.
~ George MacDonald
She did not hesitate. Right into the hole she went, which was high enough to let her walk without stooping. For a little way there was a brown glimmer, but at the first turn it all but ceased, and before she had gone many paces she was in total darkness.
~ George MacDonald
We answer: To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery.
~ George MacDonald
The right teacher would have his pupil easy to please, but ill to satisfy; ready to enjoy, unready to embrace; keen to discover beauty, slow to say, Here I will dwell.
~ George MacDonald
It seems the way to find some things is to lose yourself.
~ George MacDonald
Love is as rare as a star. I thought the stars were anything but rare, uncle. That's because you never went out to find one for yourself, Katey. They would prove a few miles apart. But it would be big enough when I did find it. Right, my dear. That is the way with love.
~ George MacDonald
Human science cannot discover God; for human science is but the backward undoing of the tepestry-web of God's science.
~ George MacDonald
Human science cannot discover God; for human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science.
~ George MacDonald
But thou shalt at least find faith in the earth, O Lord, if thou comest to look for it now-the faith of ignorant but hoping children, who know that they do not know, and believe that thou knowest.
~ George MacDonald