Quotes about Discovery

Not till we are completely lost or turned around, do we begin to find ourselves.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return—prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

While he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.