Quotes About Exploration

Come back with a healthy monkey, or don't come back at all.

Break the rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?

A trip to the market in the morning to buy bread, an afternoon spent reading in a cafe—nothing was routine; a strange place helped you find the poetry in everyday life.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Rule: Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

Ideas are a mode of transportation, a vehicle that you can use to take yourself from wherever you are to wherever you want to go.

When you set more goals, try more things, engage in more activities, and explore more opportunities, your probabilities of success increase dramatically.

Move out of Your Comfort Zone

It seems that most of the decisions we make in life are similar to backing up in the night and hitting something, and then getting out to see what it was.

to achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must learn and practice qualities and skills that you have never had before.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." – Isaac Newton

Always before, people ready to enter space have been civilized in a way you humans have avoided altogether. We fear if the people of Earth are allowed into space in their uncivilized state, the results could be disastrous beyond anything you imagine. At the moment, we are considering a permanent quarantine on Earth. We don't mind you exploring your own solar system; there's not much there anyway. But we cannot allow you to carry this sickness, whatever it is, into the galaxy at large.

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

For centuries, European explorers had set out for new lands without using expressions like pharaoh and promised land, New Covenant and New Israel, Exodus and Moses. By choosing these evocative lyrics, the founders of America introduced the themes of oppression and redemption, anticipation and disenchantment, freedom and law, that would carry through four hundred years of American history. Because of them, the story of Moses became the story of America.

I am leaning back and running with it and staring at the stars and I'm eleven, I'm sixteen, I'm eighteen, I'm a newborn I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.

In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.

every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.

around a proposition or an idea or story willingly. Some

Inquiry doesn't have a motive. It doesn't teach a philosophy. It's just investigation.

We're all five-year-olds. We don't know how to do this thing called life. We're just learning how.

A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I'm so great but because in order to get to me you have to take a path through literature, not through some books bought out of curiosity at the bookstore. A reader of mine has to have read other things.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.