Quotes About Exploration

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." ? William Faulkner

Todo aquel que necesita más de una maleta —dijo mientras cerraba con dos vueltas de llave la puerta de su apartamento— es un turista, no un viajero.

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child.

I need daylight. But I wander in the dark.

I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely.

a meadow which David had known before the coming of the motorway, where he had searched for mushrooms in previous autumns, in lost quiet golden hazes.

Comenzar una novela es como abrir la puerta o un paisaje neblinoso; ves muy poco, pero hueles la tierra y sientes el soplo del viento.

How we tracked him, you most of all of course, and lost him and found him.

It was a voyage into the absurd.

I liked to live in other people's worlds and have none of my own.

A human being is a morass, a swamp, a jungle.

I'm being led — on some dark way.

Even Wittgenstein did not think that we would ever reach the moon.

rabbit hole of relativism.

Faith doesn't forbid exploration. It's dogma that does. Dogma, by definition, is threatened by questions, while faith welcomes questions because it trusts that God, being magisterial, can handle them. That's a God whose grace can be felt by curious individuals everywhere.

Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun.

As difficult it is tae conceive ay it at the moment, ah may yet find other uses for the organ, besides pishing.

The artist has to take risks.

Sa svakim novim jezikom ?ovek dobija nov život; jer ako znamo jezik jedne strane zemlje, možemo da upoznamo njenu književnost, njeno ponašanje i obi?aje...

Ci sono troppi libri che non ho letto, troppi posti che non ho visto, troppi ricordi che non ho conservato abbastanza a lungo

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life. [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.