Quotes About Discovery

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

Like the meaning of my name, questions follow me wherever I go.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

When you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

To live a creative life we must forget our fear of being wrong.

Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

You never know just what you can do until you try.

My life only began the day I was apprenticed to Tom Ward. - Jenny, in her diary

I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

It is hard to find a butterfly in the city environment.

I opened the car door; then, just to be thorough, I got out and knelt in front of the bumper. And found it, magnetically affixed to the back of the license plate. I pulled it off: a miniature GPS tracking device. A box about three inches by one containing a GPS receiver and a cellular modem. That little toy could transmit a vehicle's location over a cell-phone network.

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

The seed of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.