Quotes About Exploration

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

I do not seek. I find.

The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

I said here's the river I want to flow on, here's the direction I want to go, and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.