Quotes About Exploration

The Uncommon Reader,

It is my habit to buy cheap editions of old, obscure books and see what I can discover there. If the professors of literature knew the sources of my ideas, they would be astounded at the Philistine. But there is a greater pleasure in picking up a small pearl in an ash-can than in looking at a large one in a jeweler's window.

questing is more important than finding, and a journey is more important than the mere arrival at a destination

Good books often answer question you did not even know you wanted to ask

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

If there was a road I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Wat zou er trouwens veranderen als er op andere planeten ook mensen woonden? Ik heb nooit gehoord dat de Europeanen zich minder eenzaam voelden, toen Columbus ontdekte dat Amerika bestond er dat er daar ook mensen waren.

Het eerste waar Nederlanders aan denken, als ze iets willen verkrijgen dat hun eigen land niet oplevert, is niet het zelf te gaan maken, maar het te zoeken in den vreemde.

Je bent hier namelijk in de donkere kamer. Maar nergens ter wereld komt zoveel aan het licht als in een donkere kamer.

Geen mens weet waartoe hij in staat is, voor hij alles geprobeerd heeft.

Door mijn voetstappen te tellen (...), is het me toch gelukt zonder kompas weer thuis te komen. is dat geen succes? Is dit niet het succes waarop mijn hele leven mij heeft voorbereid?

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

It is the great glory of the quest for human knowledge that, while making some small contribution to that quest, we can also continue to learn and to take pleasure in learning.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together, Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!

Up the airy mountain,Down the rushy glen,We daren't go a-huntingFor fear of little men.

their chests. Mr. Ryu tells us to get off the bus and go inside

You have deliberately tasted two worms and you can leave Oxford by the next town drain.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.