Quotes About Exploration

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

What's important is finding out what works for you.

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.

All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.

Diane von Furstenberg

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.

Unless you enter the tiger's den, you cannot take the cubs.

In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.

Between two evils, I always picked the one I never tried before.

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown, our science and technology are so powerful that, if an intense effort is made, we can do almost anything we want in say, ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!