Quotes About Discovery

Her parents had no idea that you could meet people outside of school and it wasn't freaky and the internet was the way of finding your people.

Then I noticed his rising blush, and I realized something. Tobin and Angie . . . their togetherness was new. New enough that being touched by her still came as a glorious, blush-worthy surprise.

There were for sure snakes at the camp. It was entirely made of snakes. Why hadn't she thought of the snakes?

The thing about looking just a little bit means it's really easy to look a little bit more.

It's true. All the money, all the power - none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. The world is a door. Books are the key.

Yeah. She said that there was weird shit in the walls at Ellingham. Things and hollow spaces. Stuff. She'd found things. Shit in the walls.

The more I looked, the more Christmasy it got.

Some guys surprise you like that.

No one gets Paris after one visit. No one.

I found out so many things about so many people that I didn't want to know

The spaces were wide and wild. And for the first time since this started, she felt a real sense of the danger here.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

What Columbus felt when he landed in America, what the astronauts felt when they landed on the moon, is what a child feels when he discovers the earth, between the ages of two and seven.

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that's through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality—you who have never known any—but to discover it.

It has been a day of wonder, this, our first day in the forest.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?

it was astonishing to discover that the lines of her shoulder were fragile and beautiful, and that the diamond band on the wrist of her naked arm gave her the most feminine of all aspects: the look of being chained.

The novelist must discover the potential, the gold mine, of man's soul, must extract the gold and then fashion as magnificent a crown as his ability and vision permit.

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist. But we think that the Council of Scholars is blind. The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. We know, for we have found a secret unknown to all our brothers.

From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man—the function of his reasoning mind.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. We

So much is still to be learned! So long a road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!

And someday the world will discover that without thought there can be no love.