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Quotes About Exploration

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
~ Henry Miller
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
~ Francois Truffaut
Let your memory be your travel bag.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
~ Samuel Johnson
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
~ Jack Kerouac
What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.
~ Charles de Lint
An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
~ Paul D. Boyer
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts
~ Yvon Chouinard
I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
~ Ziggy Marley
He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.
~ Hernando Cortes
Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
~ Paul Theroux
If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.
~ Bjork
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.
~ Paul Theroux
If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.
~ Gautama Buddha
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
~ Euripides
People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.
~ Lance Morrow
Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.
~ Dalai Lama
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
~ Pico Iyer
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
~ Guy de Maupassant
The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.
~ Alexandra David-Neel
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
~ Alan Rickman
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
~ Paul Theroux