Quotes About Exploration

I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the work ends up being corrupted. It becomes didactic. What a book does is share a consciousness and invite people to explore the questions as best as you can.

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing....

it is 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.

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. 

The Icelanders are the most intelligent race on earth, because they discovered America and never told anyone.

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

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered," said Mr. Erskine; "I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. . . 

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. And he sets his mind to unknown arts.

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

And he sets his mind to unknown arts

Errabat nudo per loca sola pede. She was wandering barefoot through lonely places.

The brave find a home in every land

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes / And he applies his mind to unknown arts

Besides Diana Gabaldon's Scotland and Anne McCaffrey's Pern, DreamLand is my favorite land to visit.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

I really preferred to walk. I have only just landed in England from New York, and it's quite a treat to walk on an English country road again.

If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?

As two-seaters go, I had always found mine fairly comfortable, but then I had never before tried to get the eight hours in it, and you would be surprised at the number of knobs and protuberances which seem suddenly to sprout out of a car's upholstery when you seek to convert it into a bed.