Quote by Walker Percy Download Open image ““How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.”” — Walker Percy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But discoveries are what usually egg us on. Not finding anything would be very bad indeed.” — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.” — Idowu Koyenikan Copy Share Image
“I think there are lots of things still to be discovered. You just have to be paying attention.” — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
“we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“If the spirit of your imagination is limited, your journey of discovery will be very short.” — Alastair Agutter Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to force some theory on a mystery and make foolishness of it, just because that is what people who talk about… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The universe has many different secrets. We’re here to discover them by actually experiencing them.” — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“But what if there’s stuff we don’t know? Mysteries that don’t go along with nature.” — Marianna Baer Copy Share Image
“So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery rather than fail to find you by supposing you to… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out?… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness, it is… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it to us… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and into the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“A variant of the amnesic-plot device is the inadvertent return of the amnesiac to home territory, where he is welcomed by a lovely woman,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image