Quotes About Exploration

When I had exhausted our library I made several excursions—to Saint Andrew's, to Oxford, to the German Universities—and read over the shoulders of mortal students. It was sometimes very trying not being able to turn the pages for myself, since I was a quicker reader than they; but invisibility had its drawbacks.

My constellations are not made from the stars, but from the spaces between the stars. The dark places. The open places, where your mind can travel forever and ever.

It didn't matter where they went, the stars followed. A map of the universe spread out before them.

[Learning] is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust . . . never fear . . . and never dream of regretting.

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Love is most nearly itselfWhen here and now cease to matter.Old men ought to be explorersHere and there does not matterWe must be still and still movingInto another intensityFor a further union, a deeper communionThrough the dark cold and the empty desolation,The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast watersOf the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.

Not fare well,But fare forward, voyagers.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time

And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues...

You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.

entrée to your future. Start reading journals and blogs and books that you've

From New York they traveled on to Washington, a swamp village by comparison. In

Skepticism is fine, but don't pass by a once in a lifetime opportunity to uncover a treasure because of it.

Non-belief and skepticism go hand and hand; always seeking, but never finding the truth.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Where roads are made I lose my way. In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track. The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons. And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.