Quotes About Exploration

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

the fields of learning and performance are an exploration of greyness—

Musicians, actors, athletes, philosophers, scientists, writers understand that brilliant creations are often born of small errors.

Our books should be missing something, the finding of which makes us whole.

John has always been searching for something," says Jennifer Irwin, McAfee's girlfriend at the time. She remembers him telling her once that he was trying to reach "the expansive horizon.

If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking depiction of difficult emotions, and an exploration of interesting ideas.

I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

The rover couldn't go any further.

An alien spacecraft. I'm sure of it." "…craft?…

as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, "Land lies there.

You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.

I knew now that I had put a world behind me, and that I was opening out another world ahead. I had passed the haunts of savages. Great piles of granite mountains of bleak and lifeless aspect were now astern ;

ONE OF THE REASONS that depression is so problematic—and deadly, leading to many of the forty thousand suicides in the United States each year—is that people are often loath to admit they are suffering, let alone explore it in detail.

It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I'd never seen anybody in a library pick up a small literary journal.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.

Funny how much I've read about this place for months—pages and pages of history. And no idea how little I knew until I came for myself.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

I piddle with words.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

the thing was, not to go home.