Quotes About Exploration

have an affinity for choosing the tightrope walk across the abyss and have developed a genius for the wrong turn.

It's dangerous to write about what you don't know, I said. Ledare got up to go and said, It's dangerous not to.

He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.

he felt the snow, downward groping of tree roots.

When he held a candle across the threshold, the black swallowed the fire completely. When he tried to step across it, he felt nothing beneath his foot. Sometimes he heard rain, a bird-cry, wind soughing through tall trees; mostly he was aware only of an intimation of vastness, silence, as though he stood at the edge of a world. He saw nothing. So he let the charcoal imagine what might lie on the other side of the door.

I saw a man once leap into a pit to see how deep it was, he commented. But no doubt you are wiser.

The journey was more important than the place; most important was to return home, with crumpled maps, salt and pepper shakers shaped like clam shells, a sweatshirt with whales on it, and be able to say: I have been there, I have gone on a journey, I have come safely home.

Patricia Brennan Demuth

Solitude provides the illusion—or is it the reality?—of a self. If I'm alone I can think dark thoughts, be real, be phony, try this, try that. Erase, contradict, forge ahead, double back.

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think?

Death was only one more adventure untried.

She wanted two weeks of working among people she didn't know, doing the kind of work a million other people did. She wanted to step into someone else's shoes. She

I am the forever-seeking.

He had further narrowed his mind by a considerable amount of travel abroad, where he had again always made his way to the small hotels.

How do you fan the fires of faith in your message? By exploring all phases of your subject, grasping its deeper meanings, and asking yourself how your talk will help the audience to be better people for having listened to you.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The opportunities are endless if they are embraced.

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

A train is a poem that will take you anywhere you want to go.

We want to ask questions and not just make assertions.

have always replied that I will be glad to enter a joint inquiry with so and so, but I will not debate. We will seek the truth together.

As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she's not in the room any more, she's inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.

Time is a river, and books are boats.

When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit