Quotes About Exploration

An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

When things don't go right, go left

There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

Sometimes the things you've lost can be found again in unexpected places.

There are some things we might not know, but that doesn't mean we should give up. We can find out what we need to know. We can find out everything

I guess we'll be traveling in uncharted waters." "That'll be fun," Phil said.

It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.

Uncle Monty smiled at the orphans. 'That's quite all right,' he said. 'Questions show an inquisitive mind.

It is difficult for me to exaggerate how much I love a library.

I will love you as a cufflink loves to drop from its shirt and explore the party for itself.

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history, and no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

Perhaps you are one of us too, investigating your life and thinking about the world, always feeling native to nowhere. We put on disguises sometimes, to pose as people we are not, to hide, or to blend in, or just to see what will happen, hoping that our secrets will never be found out.

But you can't read every story, and answer every question even if you'd like to

I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper.

Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved.

I love a library. Just to walk inside one, and to breathe in a room where so much literature has been gathered, is such a powerful feeling that it often brings a tear to my eye, although that could also be my mild allergy to dust.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

There's more to life than safety