Quotes about Discovery
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
- Joseph Campbell
I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.
- John Newton
Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.
- John Piper
Asking questions is the key to understanding.
- John Piper
Make this the year you stop complaining about your weaknesses, and instead search for their God-given purpose.
- John Piper
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.
- John Polkinghorne
scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the light of further experience.
- John Polkinghorne
Encourage Independent Thinking—While the children and youth gain a knowledge of facts from teachers and textbooks, let them learn to draw lessons and discern truth for themselves.
- Ellen White
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
I have found things while I was lost that I might never have discovered if I had stayed on the path. I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
When you live in God, your day begins when you lose yourself long enough for God to find you, and when God finds you, to lose yourself
- Barbara Brown Taylor
It is a great thing to see something familiar from an unfamiliar angle for the first time, even if it is because you have been worried and lost for longer than you would have liked.
- Barbara Brown Taylor