Quotes About Discovery

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus, Hercule Poirot realized that this artificially set scene had a point of reality...

He thought: Best of an island is once you get there—you can't go any farther … you've come to the end of things…. He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. VI

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

Lies--and again lies--it amazes me, the amount of lies we had told to us this morning." "There are more still to discover," said Poirot cheerfully.

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.

the more we learn, the less and less motive we find for suicide? But for murder, we begin to have a surprising collection of motives!

Surely, I thought, in a world where man has been able to put satellites in the sky and where men talk big about visiting the stars, there must be something that rouses you, that makes your heart beat, that's worthwhile searching all over the world to find!

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Miss Williams said: "I see now why you said that it might be better if she had never known. All the same, I

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.

It is looking for the needle in the haystack, I grant—but in the haystack there is a needle—of that I am convinced!

Poirot. "You find out

there was a girl who discovered the body." "What did she do when she discovered it?" "Screamed." "Very nice too,

Why not have told me the truth?" he countered. "In a place like this, all Ralph Paton's doings were bound to be known. If your sister had not happened to pass through the wood that day somebody else would have done

The murderer is with us—on the train now….

Not so. Voyons! One fact leads to another—so we continue. Does the next fit in with that? A merveille! Good! We can proceed. This next little fact —no! Ah, that is curious! There is something missing—a link in the chain that is not there. We examine. We search. And that little curious fact, that possibly paltry little detail that will not tally, we put it here!" He made an extravagant gesture with his hand. "It is significant! It is tremendous!

It's quite possible that the delusions of today may be the proved scientific facts of tomorrow.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any further... you've got to the end of things.

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Poirot laughed. "The moral of that is, always look under the mats!

But rest assured, my indications will lead you to the truth." He paused. Then he said: "And perhaps, then, you would wish that they had not led you so far. You would say instead: 'Ring down the curtain.

They came out of the temple into the sunshine with the sand yellow and warm about their feet.