Quotes About Exploration

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

The journey, Not the destination matters...

The journey not the arrival matters.

Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question...

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time

Poetry, if it is not to be a lifeless repetition of forms, must be constantly exploring the frontiers of the spirit. But these frontiers are not like the surveys of geographical explorers, conquered once for all and settled. The frontiers of the spirit are more like the jungle which, unless continuously kept under control, is always ready to encroach and eventually obliterate the cultivated area.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we know we started and know the place for the first time.

And so each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Nur diejenigen, die riskieren zu weit zu gehen, können überhaupt herausfinden, wie weit man gehen kann.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time . . .

Anything is possible, but many things are highly unlikely. Only those who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.

You bring me news Of a door that opens at the end of a corridor, Sunlight and singing; when I had felt sure That every corridor only led to another, Or to a blank wall; that I kept moving Only so as not to stay still. Singing and light.

Of course one can 'go too far' and except in directions in which we can go too far there is no interest in going at all; and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go. Not to go far enough is to remain 'in the vague' as surely and less creditably than to exceed

I'm tired of being lost and I'm tired of dying, so I'm going to try something different this time.

Go down. It seemed obvious. You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

For all the things we've seen... my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn't it?

tunnel into Ocher Bar, the long cavern below the Counting Room.

Fritti, too, his head full of Hushpad and Firefoot and red claws, finally crossed the borders of the dream-fields. The furry tangle of Folk drowsed and mumbled away the waning Hour of Final Dancing.

We go into unknown places." "As do all mortals

The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.