top of page
.png){kind=small}
Discovery Quotes
"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
30
"The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal."
26
"It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country."
26
"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
25
"If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments."
25
"What emerged from the portal was not the feared armada. Instead, it was a single ship. A familiar ship. I felt a quickening in my atoms.Clever, dangerous girl. I have been expecting you."
25
"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure."
24
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
24
"There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene."
24
"I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind."
24
"Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it."
23
"The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts."
22
"My maid never sweeps under the bed so I asked her to do so today. Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago."
21
"Each of us has a latent energy and we need to discover this invisible "treasure by the way of concentration."
19
"You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself."
17
"The apothecary's name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He'd found a new type of blue fluff, which he was grinding down. It was probably good for curing something. He'd have to try it out on people until he found out what."
16
"Open your eyes to new opportunities."
16
"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."
13
"I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe."
13
"Your bread may be small but with God's blessing it will increase."
13
"I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it."
12
"Discovering yourself is the major key to being successful."
12
"When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don't see, which are directly in front of your eyes."
11
"He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there."
11
"Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone."
11
"Just because a path never existed, doesn't mean that it isn't there..."
11
"Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map."
11
"Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed."
11
"You can't hide from wisdom, it's everywhere; you won't find it in everyone, it's too rare."
11
"All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one's life to its fulfilment."
10
"Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission."
10
"I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth."
10
bottom of page