Quotes About Exploration

il faut tenter de vivre.

La vida como un comentario de otra cosa que no alcanzamos y que esta ahí al alcance del salto que no damos.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in all directions...

Nesse tempo, já me dera conta de que procurar era minha sina, emblema de todos aqueles que saem à noite sem qualquer finalidade exata, razão de todos os destruidores de bússolas.

I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

Pero más puede la curiosidad que el castigo

the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

I know what it means to be moved by a book in my body so much that I go looking for its analog in the real world. [From an interview with Complex magazine, 12/2012]

If this was another kind of story, I'd tell you about the sea

One Ring. Like stumbling into

Tenía un interés tal en la educación que cualquier conocimiento nuevo, por arcano o trivial que fuera, lo llevaba a la luna.

Se suponía que al crecer uno perdiera la capacidad de dormir con facilidad en lugares nuevos, pero yo nunca la tuve como para perderla.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to...

It was true, what they said about the stars. The more you looked, the more you saw.

but his mind, free to go wherever it wished, chose to move over the past, hovering atop it like a bird over some immense body of water, no shoreline in sight, only the distant reflection of himself in its shining surface for company.

Whoever thinks so doesn't understand the first thing about him. He went out there because he just couldn't stand not knowing, not for one more minute of his life.

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back. She wondered what she would do.