Discovering The World Quotes:

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Discovering Yourself, Journey And Destination

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Wisdom, Travel, Character, Discovering Yourself, Inner Journey

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

- Alan Alda

source: Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity, Discovering Yourself, Inspirations Being Yourself

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Country, Travel, Hippie, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure Time

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Discovering Yourself, Long Walk To Freedom

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Walden ch. 2 (1854)

topic: Life, Cutting, Wish, Marrow, Discovering Yourself

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Business, Self Esteem, Discovering Yourself, Inner Growth

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Real, Book, Discovering Yourself, Discovering The World

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Self, Mindful Living, Leather Shoes

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Travel, Travel The World, Discovering The World

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

- William S. Burroughs

topic: Discovery, Finding Yourself, Answers, Discovering The World

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

- Ira Glass

topic: Joy, Empathy, Facts, Discovering The World

Movies will continue one way or another. Maybe on video. Even on video games. You have to look at it, if you have children, or if you are linked to children, because it's new for them. This has not disappeared; the look of a child who is discovering the world, whatever it is.

- Jean-Luc Godard

source: Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

topic: Children, Games, Way, Discovering The World

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

- Richard Bach

topic: Life, Change, Home, Change Is Good, Discovering The World

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Luck, Sometimes, Penicillin, Antibiotics, Discovering The World

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

- Stefan Zweig

topic: Horizon, World, England, Discovering The World

Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.

- Kenneth Lonergan

source: "Kim Coates, Ryan Hurst and Theo Rossi Talks SONS OF ANARCHY and Where Their Characters Are in Season 5". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2012.

topic: Growing Up, Teenager, Kids, Discovering The World, Little Kid

I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.

- Chris Hayes

topic: Basketball, Thinking, Views, Discovering The World, Pushing Back

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Spring, Curiosity, Bed, Discovering The World