Quotes About Discovery

I had forgot that you have discovered my darkest secret—that I am a gentleman at heart.

She resented his knowing or his discovering. She felt intruded upon. Almost violated.

This is your home, but it is mine no longer. I have to find my own place.

Curiosity demands satisfaction.

You have a great deal of energy . . . restless energy. You have always been in search of something . . . and have still not found it. Don't settle for anything less than that something even if you still do not know what it is.

It is sometimes too delicious to hear evil of a person one has despised for many years.

I don't know, Jack. I only know that I love you. And were prepared to pour out all that love in one single night with me? Yes. And don't, please, ask me why. I don't know why. And I did not even know that I would be willing to do something so rash until it happened. And I did not know that I love you until tonight.

But if we all avoided doing anything for which we are not exceptionally gifted, we would do almost nothing at all and would never discover what we can become. Instead we would waste much of the span of life allotted us in keeping safe, confining activities.

You are a stranger to me, and I am a stranger to myself.

It cannot be stressed enough that there is no certain independent date for any of the archaeological material from earliest Rome or the area round about, and that arguments still rage about the age of almost every major find.

When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.

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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?

WELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the Stella Maris is on her way out of the solar system

There is simply no alternative. We have to know them.

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks,' she said coolly. 'People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

He had also discovered the outermost limit of faith and, in doing so, had located the exact boundary of despair.

He had also discovered the outermost limit of faith and, in doing so, had located the exact boundary of despair. It was at that moment that he learned, truly, to fear God.

This kind of thing kept occurring all week. Each time, the lawyer's irritation and disbelief mounted. In addition, I sensed something else growing in him, and intimate tendril creeping from one of this darker areas, nursed on the feeling that he had discovered something about me.

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you.

Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.

If you let yourself tell those smaller anecdotes or stories, the overarching capital-S Story will eventually rise into view.