Quotes About Exploration

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

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[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.