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Quotes About Exploration

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.
~ Edward Bernds
Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.
~ Edward Hoagland
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.
~ Elton John
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!
~ George Edward Woodberry
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
~ George Eliot
So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.
~ Glenn Beck
When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.
~ Gregory Colbert
Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.
~ Marianne Williamson
I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
~ Mark Twain
We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
~ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?
~ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Every man is a door; when the door is closed, just search for the key gently! Remember that every door has a key!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Forest is the best port of the wise man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Wise man and river; they both create new paths!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan