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Quotes About Discovery

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
~ Pico Iyer
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
~ Sam Keen
We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
~ Pico Iyer
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
~ Jean Rostand
Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
~ Anna Louise Strong
All of life is a foreign country.
~ Jack Kerouac
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
~ Edmund Hillary
Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.
~ George Leigh Mallory
The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.
~ Justus von Liebig
To travel is to possess the world
~ Elias Burton Holmes
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
~ Irving Wallace
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
~ Herman Melville
So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.
~ Loreena McKennitt
The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.
~ Esther M. Friesner
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck
Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.
~ Nathan Sawaya
And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.
~ Danny Gokey
You will travel in a Land of Marvels
~ Jules Verne
To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.
~ Auguste Piccard
Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.
~ Justina Chen