Quotes About Exploration

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

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The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure – Joseph Campbell

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

DON'T BE AFRAID TO move around and try different things, no matter how old you are. The most important thing you want to find out is who you are and what capabilities you have.

The experts counter by saying that travel is so rewarding that it should take precedence over other things younger people spend money on. They believe travel has special benefits for the young because it broadens their horizons, helps them to find a focus for their lives, and challenges them in new ways.

Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.

Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you will always be able to make new discoveries in it and find things in it that you didn't notice before, even though you have read it many times.

The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.

Conjecture or hypothesis must come before observation or perception: we have inborn expectations; we have latent inborn knowledge, in the form of latent expectations, to be activated by a stimuli to which we react as a rule while engaged in active exploration. All learning is a modification (it may be a refutation)of some prior knowledge and thus, in the last analysis, of some inborn knowledge.

Es ist interessanter, einen Apfel auf dem Mond zu finden als einen Mondstein.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

If this is earth,' said the producer from Washington, D.C., 'I'm not interested in what heaven has to offer.

What are you looking for?" Wade asks, seeing me peer under his couch. "Huh?" I turn back to him. "Oh, uh…I'm just checking out the rest of the place." I suddenly feel Eva rustle around in her bag. When I look down, she peeks out at me with sleepy eyes and then lazily glances over at Wade. When she sees the Muppets hanging on the wall behind him, she cocks her head

I love anything old. I love to travel and especially like to visit the places where my books are set. My husband and I often stay in out-of-the-way inns and houses built in times past. It's fun and it gives a wonderful sense of a by-gone era.

walking on boulevards and beaches, examining postcards, studying angles of light and shadow

We let the weirdness in.

I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

And all the bars at which we fret,   That seem to prison and control,   Are but the doors of daring set   Ajar before the soul.

I'd fallen asleep so soundly it felt like I'd dropped into a black hole. Now I had to crawl back out, feeling my way like some underground creature startled by the light.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

Kate Grenville