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  • We read books to find out who we are.

    Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing
  • One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

    "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.
  • Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

    Horizon   World   England  
  • 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 (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

    Medicine   Dawn   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.

    Spiritual   Pain   Self  
    "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • 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: From 'Up' In The Morning To 'All In' At Night". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. March 27, 2013.
  • 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.

    "Interview: Kenneth Lonergan on looking past your own horizon and the ‘miracle’ of Team ‘Margaret’". Interview with Kristropher Tapley, uproxx.com. January 12, 2012.
  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

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

  • The simplest questions are the most difficult.

  • 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.

    Life   Change   Home  
  • Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  • 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, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing
  • There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan
  • ...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.

    Empathy   Joy   Stories  
  • 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's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.
  • Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  • 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.

    Children   Games   Way  
    Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com
  • I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
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