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Quotes About Exploration

While other girls were reading teen magazines and romances, you found The Story of O, and it was like a homecoming." "Yes," she breathed. Oh god, yes. "You
~ Claire Thompson
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
~ Clara Barton
You can say 'What are you looking for' and 'Who are you looking for.' Can you say 'Where are you looking for'?
~ Unknown
Why should she try to do these things? What motivates a child to grow?
~ Unknown
Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.
~ Clarence Birdseye
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
~ Clarence Darrow
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
~ Clarence Day
Queria saber: Depois que se é feliz, o que acontece? O que vem depois?
~ Clarice Lispector
I work only with lost and founds.
~ Clarice Lispector
She wanted even more: to be reborn always, to sever everything that she had learned, that she had seen, and inaugurate herself in new terrain where every tiny act had a meaning, where the air was breathed as if for the first time.
~ Clarice Lispector
Perder-se é um achar-se perigoso.
~ Clarice Lispector
That night I'd already had quite a bit to drink. I wandered from bar to bar, until, excessively happy, I was afraid I'd outdo myself: I'd grown too comfortable in my own skin. I was looking for a way to pour some of myself out, before I completely overflowed
~ Clarice Lispector
We shall be inhuman - as humankind's greatest conquest. To be is to be beyond the human. To be a human being doesn't do it, to be human has been a constraint. The unknown awaits us, but I sense that that unknown is a totalization and will be the true humanization we long for. Am I speaking of death? no, of life.
~ Clarice Lispector
Whoever isn't lost doesn't know freedom and love it.
~ Clarice Lispector
Quero te conhecer por outras fontes, seguir para tua alma por outros caminhos; nada desejo de tua vida que passou, nem teu nome, nem teus sonhos, nem a história do teu sofrimento; o mistério explica mais que a claridade.
~ Clarice Lispector
Cada novo livro é uma viagem. Só que é uma viagem de olhos vendados em mares nunca dantes revelados – a mordaça nos olhos, o terror da escuridão é total.
~ Clarice Lispector
Meu erro, no entanto, devia ser o caminho de uma verdade: pois só quando erro é que saio do que conheço e do que entendo. Se a "verdade" fosse aquilo que posso entender – terminaria sendo apenas uma verdade pequena, do meu tamanho.
~ Clarice Lispector
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
~ Claude Bernard
Those who have an excessive faith in their ideas are not well fitted to make discoveries.
~ Claude Bernard
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
~ Claude Bernard
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
~ Claude Bernard
The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.
~ Claude Bernard
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
~ Claude Bernard
Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
~ Claude Chabrol