If we learned anything, we learned we are not yet ready to learn everything.

Spock

You sat out the war because if we'd lost to the Klingons, we wanted the best of Starfleet to survive. And as this conversation makes clear, that was you and all you represent.

Admiral Cornwell

People like us always find people like them and thank god. You have a second chance and it may not last forever. Don't screw it up.

Reno

Burnham: Your programming is designed to protect life, not eliminate it.
Control (Gant): To achieve one requires the other.

Once I absorb the Sphere's data, I will be the purest form of conscious life in all of existence.

Control (Gant)

I'm not going to abandon the things that make me who I am because of a future that contains an ending I hadn't foreseen for myself.

Pike

The present is a veil between anticipation and horror. Lift the veil and madness may follow.

Tenavik

When the future becomes the past, the present will be unlocked.

Tenavik

You of all people should understand that two truths are possible.

L'Rell

Burnham: I'm not angry. I'm enraged.
Spock: And rage is the enemy of logic.

You're a scientist, Spock. You've been taught to trust logic, trust the facts. Not to wait for the universe to hand you a solution like a birthday present.

Burnham

Time flows differently for those who protect the crystals. The past, the present, the future. All are equal in their presence.

Tenavik

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Quotes

Nhan: I see where the Federation puts its pennies.
Pike: Do not covet thy neighbor's starship, Commander. Besides, we got the new uniforms.
Saru: And lovely uniforms they are, Captain.
Burnham: Very colorful.

Connelly: Every time we tried to scan, the computer went haywire.
Burnham: Like a compass at the North Pole.
Pike: Well put. Why didn't we think of that Connelly? Huh? Think of all the syllables that gave their lives.
Connelly: Metaphor seemed a bit simplistic.
Burnham: I believe it's a simile.