Quotes About Exploration

You will not discover the limits of the soul by traveling, even if you wander over every conceivable path, so deep is its story.

The soul is undiscovered though explored forever to a depth beyond report.

One would never discover the limits of soul, should one traverse every road so deep a measure does it possess

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

I went in search of myself.

The limits of the soul you could not discover, though traversing every path.

Whoever cannot seek the unforseen, sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

How does one instill curiosity? Without it this 'educational' process is a continual struggle between a student who is trying to get by and a teacher who is trying to catch him at it, neither profiting.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

So he explored, explored within himself, scanning himself with a lamp, as if it were not himself at all but some strange monster that he had been commanded to guard.

As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her expenses, she is in well-known country.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.

The end of all our exploring," as T. S. Eliot reminds us, "will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Develop your situation sensors. –   Get involved in projects outside your area. –   Participate in extracurricular activities. –   Communicate your personal "why.