Quotes about Discovery

I do not search; I find.

If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get on the road.

Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.

Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Sin always splits the self to some degree, yes. You know that you have harmed yourself and others, but you probably are not going to come to terms with that because you're carrying on a charade of righteousness, even if you don't believe it. So confession is very deep in the process of discovering the soul.

"Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time.

If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

"I love you and I don't want to lose you. Because my life has been better since the day I found out."

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place... nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.