Quotes About Exploration

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

I can't bear those people who only talk about arthritis and ring roads and television and mending gutters, although one does recognize the need for them, if only because they occasionally provide babies who grow up to be more interesting.

College would be a new beginning, a time when they could both choose to be anything or anyone they wished.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

It was a man taking a machine and a machine taking a man into secret places, into the subliminal.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can't give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don't know anything like enough yet; that I haven't understood enough; that I can't know enough; that I'm always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].

In our world, surely the worst thing anyone can say is; 'No further inquiry is needed. You've already got all you need to know.' It is the most sinister and dangerous thing.

What is one ever doing anywhere?

Baš me sad neobi?no zaokuplja moj novi roman. Misle?i o njemu, ja ?esto odlazim sam na duga?ke šetnje.

You could always go back to school," Louise said. "You're never too old to learn." "But there's just so much. Not just this world, but so many others. By the time I got caught up, I would be too old." "To spend the rest of your life learning?" Louise asked, shaking her head in wonderment. "What could be better than that?" Such a twenty-fourth-century attitude, Clare thought.

And from th' Antarctic Pole eastward behold As much more land, which never was descried, Wherein are rocks of pearl that shine as bright As all the lamps that beautify the sky; And shall I die, and this unconquerèd?

Evolution doesn't really have a destination. It's just dicking around with possibilities.

And that continued for quite a while until the adventurer admitted that it IS an accepted fact among monsters and giants of all stripes that Englishmen are delicious.

For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)

like trying to follow a stream of black oil through a maze of shadows.

at eighteen months, Sophie moved like a small drunk most of the time.)

mitzvahs, niños en JC Penney's o lo que fuera, pero en tierra firme. Al otro lado del canal

And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

Christopher Paolini

There are no safe paths anymore

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