“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them." by Elizabeth Gilbert?
Elizabeth Gilbert photo
Elizabeth Gilbert 232
American writer 1969

Related quotes

Stephen Wolfram photo

“I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.”

Stephen Wolfram (1959) British-American computer scientist, mathematician, physicist, writer and businessman

"Computing a Theory of Everything" (2010)

John Steinbeck photo

“Only when we step back can we see that we have been reassembling something that can stand in the wind.”

Thomas Cahill (1940) American scholar and writer

Introduction
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

Neil deGrasse Tyson photo
Jodi Picoult photo
Democritus photo

“Verily we know nothing. Truth is buried deep.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

Another translation: "Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well." Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers R.D. Hicks, Ed. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0004,001:9:11
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments

Related topics