Quotes About Exploration

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

THE MAN WHO MAKES NO MISTAKES USUALLY MAKES NOTHING

Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Qué poco sabemos de lo que somos! ¡Como menos lo que podemos ser!

Of course, if you're hoping for a perfect world, you're bound to be disappointed. But an interesting world--now that's doable. It's right here in front of you.

Think more interestingly more clearly more often, because life is more interesting than you think.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it also made her life more interesting. The simple fact is, something always kills the cat. It was actually quite wise of her to choose something stimulating to perform that invaluable service.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

A great ship asks deep water.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I was fascinated by mechanical and electrical gadgets—anything with a cord, a plug, a battery, a light, a motor.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare.

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

It is so much nicer to ask, when someone speaks of Barbados, Banska Bystrica or Fiji: 'Oh those little islands.... Are they British?' (They usually are.)

A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

What I like more than anything is to visit other islands...

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.

the original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road until someone disproves the geometrical proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between points.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?