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Quotes About Exploration

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.
~ Stefan Zweig
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
~ Thomas Merton
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
~ Tom Hanks
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
~ Voltaire
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.
~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
~ Jeremy Bentham
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
~ John Buchan
If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today
~ John Sculley
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
~ John Zachary Young
Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .
~ Clifford D. Simak
Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
~ David Daiches
In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.
~ Frank Smythe
Man's most serious activity is play.
~ George Santayana
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
~ Giacomo Casanova
I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.
~ Louis Garrel
Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.
~ Marilyn Monroe
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.
~ Maurice Herzog
Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.
~ Michael Beckwith
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
~ Myrtle Reed
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
~ Plato
Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'
~ Robert Kennedy
An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."
~ Christopher Columbus
No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.
~ Arthur Hailey