Quotes About Exploration

When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.

Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.

Will Ferguson

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them." I

Don't teach my child science; instead, teach my child how to learn science — or history or math or music.

The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?

When you're through learning, you're through.

You would be surprised what there is to see in this great country within 200 miles of where any of us live. I don't care what State or what town.

Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us uneasy, and they had also always given us something to talk about when we were stressed or anxious.

Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to "the Art of Reading." Lin writes that, "the man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighborhood.

When we denigrate mediocrity, we discourage ourselves and others from trying new things. It would be great to be a great painter, but it's also great just to paint. Or sing or throw pots or knit scarves or play chess.

Christopher Isherwood's Christopher and His Kind,

There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some of my books should be awarded their own frequent-flier miles, they've traveled so much.

When we ask one another "What are you reading?" sometimes we discover the ways that we are similar; sometimes the ways that we are different. Sometimes we discover things we never knew we shared; other times we open ourselves up to exploring new worlds and ideas. "What are you reading?" isn't a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it's really a way of asking, "Who are you now and who are you becoming?