Quotes About Exploration

Why had I chosen the path of the law? And why law of the kind that seemed to be connected to an unspoken family history? 'What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others,' the psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham wrote of the relationship between a grandchild and a grandparent. The invitation from Lviv was a chance to explore those haunting gaps.

Personne ne peut me dire une richesse nouvelle

I've never eaten a taco, and I don't plan to.

You don't make art, you find it

A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others...

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. —Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

The farther and more deeply we penetrate into matter, by means of increasingly powerful methods, the more we are confounded by the interdependence of its parts.

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être trouvé que ce qui n'a jamais existé encore.

Latia returned, coming around the curve and stepping through the glass. Yes, it's our path, she reported. And it seems to be near the ogre fen. Oh? How do you know? Esk asked. Oh, nothing specific. Trees twisted into pretzels, boulders cracked with hairy fist marks on them, dragons slinking about as if terrified of anything on two legs. Perhaps I am mistaken.

If he's lost in gourdland, he's still lost when he returns there, even if he's been a long time out of his gourd. He doesn't know where he's going because he doesn't know where he's been.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

a life without investigation is not worth living

Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

we must go where the argument carries us, as a vessel runs before the wind.

The unexplored life is not worth living!

Philosophy starts nowhere else but with wondering.

I shouldn't like to take my oath on the whole story, but one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act—that is, that we shall be better, braver, and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

but I would contend at all costs in both word and deed as far as I could that we will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not [c] know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.