Quotes About Exploration

Stephen Sondheim said : If you know where you're going, you've gone. Move on.

Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.

There were no safe places in life. That's why you had to keep moving

No more pipeline. I've lost all my interest in the West. The only thing I want to explore is you

Charlotte was lost for words. What did one say to a man in a fake marsupial head, wearing a grass loin-pouch and trying to debate ethnobotany in the middle of a lost world that was supposed to be inaccessible by foot?

After a few hours they stopped to have soup, but Wanda kept going alone, eager for the window of opportunity to be the first woman on the summit.

With barely two francs to rub together, she traveled alone and on a shoestring, living on the food she'd packed. While rejoicing in again finding herself independent and teetering thousands of feet above the valley floor, negotiating life-and-death moves on the rock walls and being responsible to no one but herself.

Then imagine with me a moment that God is not alone. It is possible that He presides over more than just man? There are a number of archeological wonders about the world leading one to believe that more than just mortal man and beast have walked this earth.

thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.

a concentration of young people who wanted to open their minds

But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.

An empty space is a space for questions, not for answers. And what we don't know is infinite.

There is nothing better for a child than to grow up at the ends of the earth.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

When you look at fainted stars, you'll notice that they often appear brighter from the corner of your eye. Averted vision, we call it. Same with the answers you seek, you won't find them by staring until your eyes fall out. They'll come when you're look somewhere else.

I guess you gotta try the rest before you settle down with the best.

Noi eravamo come i cavalieri dell'antica leggenda, che veleggiavano lungo un mistico lago verso l'ignoto regno del crepuscolo, verso la sconfinata terra del tramonto. Ma non arrivammo nella terra del tramonto, andammo a finire contro il barchino da pesca sul quale stavano pescando i tre vecchi.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

We are as children whose small feet have strayed into some dim-lit temple of the god they have been taught to worship but know not;

Harris said: "If you never try a new thing, how can you tell what it's like?  It's men such as you that hamper the world's progress.  Think of the man who first tried German sausage!

If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.