Quotes about Discovery
Don't try to be anyone else because that's been done before. Find yourself and what makes you tick.
— Zoya Akhtar
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— St. Augustine
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
— St. Augustine
Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
— St. Augustine
Take up, read! Take up, read!
— St. Augustine
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
— St. Augustine
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
— St. Augustine
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
— Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Samuel Rutherford
Dry wells send us to the fountain.
— Samuel Rutherford
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!
— William Wordsworth