Quotes About Discovery

The educated person is one who knows how to find out what he does not know

Los creadores, los descubridores científicos, quienes reinan en la política y en la guerra, forjan nuestro mundo. No son como nosotros. De ahí nuestra furibunda esperanza de olfatear algún defecto en su magnitud; de reducirlos a nuestro propio, insignificante tamaño.

At that point in my life, I was not looking for a career. I viewed my first decade after college as a time to explore. I didn't want anchors to hold me down. If something caught my attention, I would try it. If not, I would move on.

Lincoln discovered Generals Grant and Sherman. Roosevelt had Eisenhower and Bradley. I found David Petraeus and Ray Odierno.

That discourse one might call the poetry of transgression is also knowledge. He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don't know.

The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I can look or pass. I rediscover indifference (allowing her to leave me) when I fall asleep, through an inability to love what happens. It is impossible for her to know whom she will discover when I hold her, because she obstinately attains a complete forgetting.

It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.

It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.

È conoscendo meglio la vittima che in genere si scopre l'assassino.

It was impressive to observe Maigret. In fact, a curious phenomenon was taking place. As he came and went in this house that wasn't his, as he evoked lives he hadn't lived, he was no longer entirely the heavy, placid, rough-hewn Maigret. Without his realizing it, there was a little of Forlacroix in the way he moved, the way he spoke. The two men could not have been more dissimilar and yet, at certain moments, it was so striking that the lawyer was quite bothered by it.

Oh, by the way, while I was having a glass of your delicious gueuze beer, I spotted a crook…

Have you limitations, my lord? asked Sir Anthony. My lord looked at him seriously. I do not know, he said, with a revealing simplicity. I have never yet discovered them.

He soon discovered that what Arabella lacked in inches she more than made up for in spirit. She tore his character to shreds and warned him of his ultimate fate

She made the rather horrifying discovery that the slim fingers of a lady could curl into claws, and quickly straightened them.

But it was very stupid of me not to see that of course the friend of Juliana must be this Mary Challoner. It was stupid of you too, Rupert. More stupid.

And in those first fifty years I believed there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and it was my goal to find that pot of gold. Now I realize that we are the rainbow, the pot of gold is love, and that is what we actually are.

Ten yards upstream of us, the body of a man was grounded face-down at the edge of the mud. Not much more showed than a hump of shoulder and the line of a leg but there was no doubting what it was. Below the water, lank hair of indeterminate colour floated as if raised in fear and the wavelets caused his hips to rise and fall in an obscene parody of the sexual act.

people usually choose the place they get lost in

I should have known that people can sometimes come close enough to discover that they are strangers.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

I know love is worth the time it takes to find. Think of that when all the world seems made of walk up rooms and hands in empty pockets

Für alle, die in einer komplizierten gesellschaftlichen Ordnung aufgewachsen sind, gibt es keinen berauschenderen Augenblick als den Beginn einer wilden Reise. Das Gartentor wird aufgestoßen und siehe da! Die unermessliche Welt.

Seems old?" said Violet. "Do I know her?" "Yes, you all know her very well," said Mr. Alden. "She is Mrs. McGregor." "Mrs. McGregor!" shouted all the children. They could not believe it.

where they had come from. The baker's wife saw them first, as they stood looking in at the window of her store. The little boy was looking at the cakes, the big boy was looking at the loaves of bread, and the two girls were looking at the cookies.