Quotes About Discovery

but most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually.

There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first inspecting it thoroughly.

Tis what marriage is all about, madam, he said. Have you not realized it? 'Tis about discovering unknown facets of the character and experience and taste of one's spouse and learning to adjust one's life accordingly. 'Tis learning to hope that one's spouse is doing the same thing.

Yet now he felt that perhaps he had missed one of the few chances life offered to step off the wheel of routine and familiarity and duty to discover if there was joy somewhere beyond its turning.

But if you do get to know me, please let me know what you discover. I have no idea who I am.

a pearl probably does not look so very remarkable either while it is still hidden inside its shell.

sententiously. "Well, I went to Underwood

heard the creature

In England the emerald-green kind is probably the commonest, I have seen it also in the woods of France and Belgium, in far-away Massachusetts, and on the banks of the Niagara River.

screened by a young beech. Where the two walls joined, several bricks had been loosened, and the crevices left were worn down and rounded upon the lower side, as though they had frequently been used as a ladder. Holmes clambered up, and taking the dog from me he dropped it over upon the other side. "There's the print of Wooden-leg's

What one man can invent another can discover, said Holmes.

But a sportin' risk, young fellah, that's the salt of existence. Then it's worth livin' again. We're all gettin' a deal too soft and dull and comfy. Give me the great waste lands and the wide spaces, with a gun in my fist and somethin' to look for that's worth findin'.

could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my

flying here, there, and everywhere

El charlatán es siempre el que va de descubierta. Del astrólogo salió el astrónomo, del alquimista el químico, y del mesmerismo, la psicología experimental. El charlatán de ayer será el profesor de mañana. Andando el tiempo, hasta una materia tan sutil y resbaladiza como la de los sueños será sistematizada y puesta en orden.

Whatever remains, However improbable

Questo era il caso per il quale veniva dato un risultato, e tutto il resto bisognava trovarlo da soli.

Every fresh advance which we make only reveals a fresh ridge beyond. And yet we have surely made some appreciable progress.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would have been a simple stream flowing from our tipsy house to the ocean. Mr. Tanaka changed all that when he sent me out into the world.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill , going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course

Llevamos nuestras vidas como el agua que corre colina abajo, más o menos en una dirección, hasta que damos con algo que nos obliga a encontrar un nuevo curso.