Quotes About Exploration

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

Sometimes a person has to leave home to become who they need to be.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time. —Laurie Gough

Fear of failure chips away at self-confidence until there is no heart to step into new territory. One needs the mind of a child to forget what happened an hour ago.

As has already been stated: some people's brains border their anal regions. Thus, their senses are dulled, and the psychopathological pestilence is such that the intrepid scholar-explorer inevitably butts up against a dead end.

y caminar por ese barrio, pasada cierta hora de la noche, era provocar demasiado a la suerte.

Sea como sea, con la llegada de Sancho Panza sucede algo cardinal: el diálogo se convierte en la principal forma de exploración de la realidad; el resto de Cervantes siempre tendrá más de un punto de vista sobre el mundo que es su material y su objetivo

De manera que Cervantes quería ir a Colombia. No lo logró: en el reverso de su propio memorial, el Consejo de Indias escribió las nueve palabras crueles que constituyeron su única respuesta: " Busque por acá en que se le haga merced

Un mundo sin novelas es un mundo estancado

He reads the Caribbean maritime memoirs of Frederick Benton Williams and the Paraguayan terrestrial memoirs of George Frederick Masterman. He reads Cunninghame Graham's books (Hernando de Soto, Vanished Arcadia), and books that Cunninghame Graham recommends: Wild Scenes in South America, by Ramón Páez, and Down the Orinoco in a Canoe, by Santiago Pérez Triana.

Faayalo zweegbe. —Sólo aquel que va en busca del agua puede romper el cántaro.

plataforma petrolífera Kobayashi Maru, situada

ciencia está aún empezando a poner el pie en el umbral de la mente humana

This is the great adventure and the great discovery. No one can do it for us. Until we have reached the top of the mountain we cannot see in full glory the view that lies beyond; but glimpses of light illumine our path to the mountain.

Señores, señoras: bienvenidos a la Zheng He.

estaban deseando ver el espacio.

I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.

Qué busca? —dijo Cacho impaciente ya. —Yo no busco, encuentro —dijo Etchenike citando a Picasso sin saberlo.

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.

He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think Brazil is too big.

science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.

It's never too late to step off a path and look for a different route.

To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.