Quotes About Exploration

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I'll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go Always a little further; it may be Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow  Across that angry or that glimmering sea,  White on a throne or guarded in a cave  There lies a prophet who can understand Why men were born: but surely we are brave, Who take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

Walking about streets, going to church of Sundays, and hearing sermons, never yet made a man of a human being. Send the boy out upon the broad ocean, if you wish to open his eyes, and let him look upon foreign nations, or what I call the face of nature, if you wish him to understand his own character.

has dropped into the river, said Hurry, after looking carefully along

That's how life works. You know it when you know it. They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here. They're on a sixteen-line highway. Driving west.

There are three shelves with about forty books on each shelf. As I look through them, I am hoping for something that will take me away from here.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

It's not just exciting to build things but to explore new fields and to recognize what comes with that is a lot of uncertainty.

My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells them is that it's helpful to be willing to sit in a space of uncertainty. There are entire years, especially with novels, where you really don't know where the project is going.

Don't be afraid to step through some of that uncertainty that you might feel when you're passionate about doing something.

Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Have the confidence to focus on uncharted territory. Take chances.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.