Quotes about Discovery

That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

The aim of education. — Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.

There she blows!—there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!

Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.

Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind. A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.