Quotes About Exploration

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas.

For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.