logo

Quotes About Exploration

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.
~ Sidney Jourard
I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.
~ Wilfred Thesiger
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
~ Charles Kingsley
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
~ Edward Abbey
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.
~ George W. Bush
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The atmosphere of Venus consists of ammonia, sulfur, and nitric oxide. Man must have lived there once.
~ Andre Brie
What one man can invent, another can discover.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!
~ Conrad Aiken
The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
~ Evan Esar
Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance
~ Everette Lee DeGolyer
It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.
~ Fred Hoyle
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
~ Jack Kerouac
Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.
~ William Shakespeare
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
~ Albert Claude
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
~ Andre Gide
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
~ Arthur Desmond
I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
~ Brent Spiner
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
~ Rudyard Kipling
America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.
~ Samuel Eliot Morison