Quotes About Exploration

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

We used to go to the sea to discover the world: now we go to the sea to discover ourselves.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.

The map is more interesting than the territory.

Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des risques.

qué hace una rata despierta? Olisquear. Jean-Didier, biólogo

Como una planta de maíz arrancada de su terreno, Una vieja concha olvidada por el mar, A orillas de la vida Me vuelvo hacia ti, que te atreviste a amarme Ven conmigo, partamos, me gustaría reencontrar Las huellas de la noche

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, after I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.

Ni toi ni moi ne sommes sûrs qu'il y a un fin mot de l'histoire, mais ça vaut la peine de le chercher.

Il a sauté dans un bosquet de fleurs sauvages. J'ai mis mes mains en cornet devant ma bouche, comme Tarzan, le roi de la jungle.

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

Wanderlust, on which the Wayfarer fed, was only lust, after all, lustily excited by penetration and veils.

Una de las maneras de hacer que la ciencia se detenga sería hacer experimentos únicamente en las áreas de las que se conoce la ley.

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

Everything looks new, but then that is the nature of science.

So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight." Renn sucked in her breath. "You've go to try."

If you're warm enough when you set out, you're wearing too many clothes.

In the early 1900s an American named Fanny Bullock Workman unfurled a 'Votes For Women' banner high in the Karakorams, and left her visiting card in a glass jar on one of the peaks.

Zwart ijs... Witte beren, rood bloed. Ze zoeken het oog van de adder... In het oog gaan is in het donker gaan. Misschien kun je de weg naar buiten vinden, Wolfjongen. Maar wanneer je eenmaal binnen bent, zul je nooit meer heel zijn. Een deel van je blijft daar beneden. In het donker. - De Loper

Beyond the Far North,' he said, 'is the Edge of the World.

I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.