Quotes About Exploration

When shall we be free? When shall we live adventurously, wholly, not like cripples in a cave?

What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers?

What a morning - fresh as if issued to children on a beach.

For Orlando's taste was broad; he was no lover of garden flowers only; the wild and the weeds even had always a fascination for him.

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us.

To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not.

I shall be a clinger to the outsides of worlds all my life.

We were full of experiments and reforms, we were going to do without table napkins. Everything was going to be new, everything was going to be different. Everything was on trial.

she was a pioneer, a stray, venturing, trusting.

The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

Still the future of civilization lies, he thought, in the hands of young men like that; of young men such as he was, thirty years ago; with their love of abstract principles; getting books sent out to them all the way from London to a peak in the Himalayas; reading science; reading philosophy. The future lies in the hands of young men like that, he thought.

Who shall blame the leader of the doomed expedition, if, having adventured to the uttermost, and used his strength wholly to the last ounce and fallen asleep not much caring if he wakes or not, he now perceives by some pricking in his toes that he lives, and does not on the whole object to live, but requires sympathy, and whisky, and some one to tell the story of his suffering to at once? Who shall blame him?

I make it a rule to try everything, she said. Don't you think it would be very annoying if you tasted ginger for the first time on your deathbed, and found you never liked anything so much? I should be so exceedingly annoyed that I think I should get well on that account alone.

The only prescription for me is to have a thousand interests.

If truth is not to be found on the shelves of the British Museum, where, I asked myself, picking up a notebook and a pencil, is truth?

No debería la educación buscar y fortalecer más bien las diferencias que no los puntos de semejanza? Porque ya nos parecemos demasiado, y si un explorador volviera con la noticia de otros sexos atisbando por entre las ramas de otros árboles bajo otros cielos, nada podría ser más útil a la Humanidad

É sempre uma aventura entrar num espaço desconhecido, porque a vida e a personalidade dos que o ocupam vão infundindo nele as suas características, de tal modo que, assim que entramos, passamos a respirar novas formas de emoção.

I knew my cases and my genders; I could know everything in the world if I wished.

Tutto quello che in teoria sembrava semplice diventava in pratica immediatamente complesso; come le onde si disegnano in forme simmetriche dall'alto dello scoglio, ma per il nuotatore che si trova in mezzo a loro sono divise da ripidi abissi e creste spumeggianti. Pure, è necessario correre il rischio; tracciare il segno.

I have lived a thousand lives already. Every day I unbury--I dig up. I find relics of myself in the sand that women made thousands of years ago...

Here she took up her lodging and began instantly to look about her for what she had come in search of–that is to say, life and a lover.

So that to know her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places.

Ma il verme dei viaggi era entrato nei loro cervelli, e non smetteva di roderli. Giovanni trovò, nelle vecchie abitudini di Catania, quell'odore sgradevole che dopo due o tre anni si trova in un abito di fatica. Le passeggiate per il corso, i discorsi con gli amici, mio Dio, di nuovo?

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.