Quotes About Discovery

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is.

Who can ever know what turns the spark into flame? Vidanric's initial interest in me might well have been kindled by the fact that he saw my actions as courageous, but the subsequent discovery of passion, and the companionship of the mind that would sutain it, seemed as full of mystery as it was of felicity. As for me, I really believe that the spark had been there all along, but I had been too ignorant--and too afraid--to recognize it.

It is a great misunderstanding to want to discover something worth living for.

It is the leap from the age of territory to the age of science.

It's not intuitively obvious that noting Gone would bring fulfillment, but many people over the ages have discovered this, hence the Sanskrit word nirvana. Are there any other counterintuitive "Gone goodies"? Indeed, yes. There is one more major one.

It is not unreasonable that in contact with modern science, and inspired by the spirit of history, the original discoveries of Gautama, rigorized and extended, will play a large part in the direction of human destiny.

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

There's an old saying, you know, that if you scratch a secret, you'll find a thief.

There is no certain way that exists permanently... Moment after moment we have to find our own way.

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing. This is the way of practice moment after moment.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

An inquisitive mind is the only means of travelling from the world of expectations to Reality

Trying to find the right path........ is to be on the right path itself

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

You are not who you think you are.

It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories.

Art leads you back to the person you were after the world took you away from yourself.