Quotes about Discovery

Take up, read! Take up, read!

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

I verily judge, we know not how much may be had in this life: there is yet something beyond all we see, that seeking would light upon.

Dry wells send us to the fountain.

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. [ Facebook post , August 31, 2013]

a reporter asked Barth what was the single most important theological discovery he'd made. After stopping to consider his answer carefully, Barth said, "Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so." Indeed, we can never outgrow that one great, majestic, and simple transforming truth.