Quotes About Exploration

Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

The tall tree sees far but the traveling seed sees farther.

Adventure may sometimes hurt, but monotony will kill you.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.

That breeze in your soul is adventure calling.

Is like finding a diamond asteroid in the rings of Saturn

Life is a zigzag journey, they say, not much straight and easy on the way, but the wrinkles in the map, explorers know, smooth out like magic at the end of where we go.

What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. —JACK KEROUAC, On the Road

Možda bi se moglo re?i da svak voli putovanje, ili bar misao o njemu, kao svoj drugi, lepši, život.

Only in dreams do we dare so much.

I had read the book 1421—The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies and become intrigued by his perspective on the era. Menzies, of course

You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or-- so we play games and we read books because the world isn't the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought we'd been promised by somebody. Because things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to. So we go someplace else.

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

This was not the state of mind I was accustomed to, at the outset of an expedition. But one does not fight the battles he wishes to fight; he fights the battles that find him. I would do my best to ignore my foul mood and physical discomfort, and plunge ahead as I had planned.

There are no dead ends, just detours.