Quotes About Exploration

Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim th? innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

In every country, it's different, and you have to be flexible and slow and careful, and in the end rely on the experience of others who have gone before you and have begun to figure these things out.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.