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Quotes About Expansion

To become human, one must make room in oneself for the wonders of the universe. South American Indigenous saying
~ Unknown
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
~ Unknown
Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.
~ Unknown
When you can see the colors of the feathers, you'll also understand how you can expand your borders to infinity.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The venture into space is meaningless unless it coincides with a certain interior expansion, an ever-growing universe within, to correspond with the far flight of the galaxies our telescopes follow from without.
~ Loren Eiseley
As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going beyond the reach of rivers. (As quoted by Richard Powers in The Echo Maker)
~ Loren Eiseley
It is conceivable that in principle man's motor through-ways resemble the slime trails along which are drawn the gathering mucors that erect the spore palaces, that man's cities are only the ephemeral moment of his spawning--that he must descend upon the orchard of far worlds or die.
~ Loren Eiseley
Sunset Point was one of those boils festering on the face of the planet: a subdivision.
~ Jim Butcher
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
~ Jim Morrison
I was not going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life reduced to a short story. I was going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life expanded to a novel, and I still do.
~ Joan Didion
Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.
~ Joan Lingard
Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.
~ Jodi Picoult
Explore the endless opportunities in life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Expand Your selfReach out to your big mind, Where the treasures of life you shall find.And you can do this by expanding yourself, You will be able to do that when within yourself you delve.
~ Ron Sen, The Verses of Life
Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.
~ Fred Kavli
If you are already awesome to everyone in your world, then your world needs to get bigger. I'm pretty sure theres actually a relationship between how many people you help outside of your sphere and how awesome people inside your sphere think you are.
~ Unknown
A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man who limits his interests limits his life.
~ Vincent Price
Our world expands or shrinks in direct proportion to our courage,
~ Unknown
You always have more brain cells than you're currently using.
~ Vinita Hampton Wright
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
~ Unknown
My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. [4] That was said in 1895 by Cecil Rhodes
~ Vladimir Lenin
As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth's surface and every other corner, to multiply the needs of mankind, and the desire for material possession and enjoyment.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Defected Russian Intelligence officers have revealed that World War II was fomented and used by the Russian leaders as an important part of the long-range strategy for the expansion of World Communism.
~ Unknown