Quotes about Discovery

Divinity is always where one least expects to find it.

I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where have I been all my life? she replies.

Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.

Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.

You don't understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place?