Quotes About Exploration

It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Inspire creativity in students

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.

si no estás preparado para equivocarte, nunca se te ocurrirá nada original.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Yes Truth may be, but 'tis not Here; mankind must seek and find it There, But Where nor I nor you can tell, nor aught earth-mother ever bare. Enough to think that Truth can be: come sit we where the roses glow, Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to 'unknow.'

Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.

I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my Reason to an O altitudo!

We carry within us the wonders we seek around us

Come, friends, who plow the sea,Truce to navigation,Take another station;Let's vary piraceeWith a little burglaree.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

When you're young, I think it's harder to know what you want, how much of others you're willing to take in. When I was living in Paris, I tried on ideas about myself like dresses. I was always reinventing who I was.

Eu cautam o cale care sa ma duca inlauntrul unui om.

This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.

In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery. In the next book I will find it - some unspeakable pleasure or startling revelation or extraordinary nuance I had never felt or thought of before.

I had no destination, just the will to go, and I went fast.