I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Quotes
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCWhat one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911