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Quotes About Exploration

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I want to be the first black man on the moon
~ Muhammad Ali
A fearless man thrives on far horizons.
~ Napoleon Hill
My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The forests have taught man liberty.
~ Paul Bourget
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
~ Paul Valery
My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.
~ Peter Webber
Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.
~ Philip José Farmer
I meddled in things that man must leave alone
~ R. C. Sherriff
Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being
~ Rajneesh
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.
~ Richard Paul Evans
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
~ Rick Yancey
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
~ Robert Browning
The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.
~ Robert E. Howard
A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
~ Robert Jordan
Man must move to things, to non-human matter- There is nowhere else to go.
~ Harry Hooton
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
~ Henry David Thoreau