Quotes About Exploration

it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising out memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

And before long, the music, the views rushing past the window, my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one, and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions, it was good for us to ask them anyway.

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

We passed through forests of fire, forded rivers of light and forged dark seas and mountains of snow and ice. Each crossing took us thousands of years, though it seemed no more than the blink of an eye.

Yeni bir mekana, bir eve ilk defa gelmiÅŸ çocuklar?n, hayat?n sillesini daha yemediÄŸi için hala her ÅŸeye kar?? merakl? ve aç?k kalabilen genç insanlar?n yapabildiÄŸi gibi pencereden d??ar?ya ilgiyle bakt?.

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard about our own selves, would only make us unhappy. This is what had happened to the characters in my story: for this reason heroes could never tolerate being themselves, for this reason they always wanted to be someone else.

But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard about our own selves, would only make us unhappy

Em seus olhos havia a luz que só se vê em crianças que chegam a um lugar novo, ou nos jovens ainda abertos a novas influências, ainda curiosos quanto ao mundo porque ainda não foram calejados pela vida.

He may have merely read the travel journals of Evliya Chelebi

what I really hoped to find on these trips wandering the shops, the cinemas, and the museums of the Western world was an idea, an object, a painting - anything at all - that might transform and illuminate my own life.

Read them, read and learn, because there's so much to do, you know.

Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Will people really go?" "People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false.

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

So that's it? asked the expendable. Final decision, said Ram. And it's the right one. Why do you think so? Because we live or die, we'll learn something important from jumping into the fold. Thousands of future travelers will either follow us or not. But if we don't make the jump, we'll learn nothing, have no new options. A lovely speech. It has been sent back to Earth. It will inspire millions. Shut up, said Ram.

No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

That was Ender's gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, always more to learn.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself.

Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

I've thought of all the questions, said Father. That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones.