Quotes About Exploration

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

What are you? To define is to limit.

On the back of Sir Richard Frances Burton's compass he engraved an inscription from the Qur'an: Travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.

No procuro saber las respuestas, procuro comprender las preguntas.

roads were made for journeys not destinations

A Journey of a thousand miles becomes with a single step.

Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?

When I was nineteen—which was, oh, Lord, forty years ago, it doesn't seem that long—my sister and I traveled all over Egypt," she said. "It was during the Pandemic. Quarantines were being slapped on all about us, and the Israelis were shooting Americans on sight, but we didn't care. I don't think it even occurred to us that we might be in danger, that we might catch it or be mistaken for Americans. We wanted to see the Pyramids.

Incluso ahora, anclado en estas aguas civilizadas, no olvido que la corriente que fluye tranquila lleva a los últimos confines de la tierra... al corazón de las tinieblas.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.

they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed into that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.

If we do not know ourselves in the waking world, what chance in dreams?

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

He looked like he was studying something small in the grass.

Those who travel desert places do indeed meet with creatures surpassing all description.

You are either going to have to find some other way to live or some other place in the world to do it in.

Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them.

Tell us where the world went.