Quotes about Discovery

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.

Whatever is singing is found, awaiting the return of whatever is lost.

Se poate întâmpla ca, atunci când nu mai È™tim ce s? facem, s? fi ajuns la adev?rata noastr? munc?, iar când nu mai È™tim pe ce cale s? o lu?m, s? fi început adev?rata noastr? c?l?torie.

And I sat there trying to think, and failing, thinking only that whatever I would say was probably going to be a surprise to me.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.

You cannot swim for new horizons unless you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

We don't know much about our current selves, do we?

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.