Discovery Quotes

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Mary Catherine Bateson

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Jean Baudrillard

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.

Oscar Wilde

Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

Unknown

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy

Joyce Grenfell

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous...î

Thomas Merton

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Marie Curie

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

Some kind of moral discovery should be the object of every tale.

Connor, Sir William Neil

I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.

Stephen De Staebler

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Julien Green

I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us...

Bernadette Roberts