#discover

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#heart #human-nature #inquisitive #learning #love

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right. ↗

— David Levithan

#luck

For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real. ↗

— Richard Rhodes

#discovery #inspiration #science #inspirational

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find. ↗

— E.L. Konigsburg

#self-discovery #self-discovery

A wise man travels to discover himself. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#travel #self-discovery

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#areas #asked #chicken #children #discover

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head. ↗

— James Rollins

#articles #discover #geographic #head #i

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-true-to-yourself #honesty #inspiring-quotes #quotes-on-being-true-to-yourself #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #identity #independence #living-vicariously #self-discovery

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#discovery #wrong