Douglas Adams Said...

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Bernard Bailey Said...

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Henry David Thoreau Said...

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round -- for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost -- do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as be awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves , and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

From: "Walden, ch. 8 "The Village""

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Said...

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.