“We will discover nothing if we bind ourselves to accepted wisdoms. Questioning is necessary for discovery.”

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

“Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“The astonishing paradox of Christ's teaching and of Christian experience is this: if we lose ourselves in following Christ, we actually find ourselves. True self-denial is self-discovery. To live for ourselves is insanity and suicide; to live for God and for man is wisdom and life indeed. We do not begin to find ourselves until we have become willing to lose ourselves in the service of Christ and of our fellows.”

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

“Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.”