Quotes About Exploration

The shores safety keeps many from the oceans treasures.

Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.

Searching for the scent of the early plum, I found it by the eaves Of a proud storehouse.

I do not seek to walk in the paths of the wise men of old, I seek what they sought.

Come, let's go snow-viewing till we're buried.

Indeed, one of the greatest pleasures of travelling was to find a genius hidden among weeds and bushes, a treasure lost in broken tiles, a mass of gold buried in clay, and when I did find such a person, I always kept a record with the hope that I might be able to show it to my friends.

Não buscamos imitar os mestres, procuramos o que eles procuravam.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.

Lana had a cocky grin. "You never get answers if you don't ask questions.

Having sex in new locations can be exciting, like when Neil Armstrong fucked the moon.

It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.

You don't have to be an academic. You don't have to be anything. Don't force it. Feel your way, and don't stop feeling your way until something fits. Maybe nothing will. Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it's one with something to look at out of the window.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.