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Quotes About Exploration

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
~ Newton D. Baker
The great thinkers of the eighteenth century were also pioneering tourists
~ Niall Ferguson
the gypsies never journeyed toward an end, for motion was an end in itself
~ Niall Williams
This is my father's story. I am writing it to find him. But to get where you're going, you have to first go backwards. That's directions in Ireland, it's also T.S. Eliot.
~ Niall Williams
Peygamberlik, Zerdü?tlük, medyumluk taslamadan içinde bulundu?umuz labirentin giri?ini ve ç?k???n? ar?yorum.
~ Nicanor Parra
She had Googled psychogeography, just to make sure she wasn't getting it wrong. It was, she discovered, about playfulness, about drifting around urban environments, about getting away from your normal routes, about opening yourself up to randomness.
~ Unknown
Frieda felt that her heart was like some old chest that had been heaved up from the seabed, its barnacled lid prized open after all this time. Who knew what treasures she would find inside?
~ Unknown
The seventy-four-gun Defence took advantage of the dark to have a closer look:
~ Unknown
Villeneuve reached Cadiz on 22 August.
~ Unknown
all the way down to Corunna, and from Cadiz to the Italian border.
~ Unknown
running his dividers across a map of the Atlantic and calculating how many leagues his ships could cover each day.
~ Unknown
he would have to go due south instead, around the outside of Majorca and Ibiza – pirate waters,
~ Unknown
He could even have come by air, as individual balloonists already had.
~ Unknown
because Beethoven did not know where it was going to end up. That, of course, is the point of sketching.
~ Unknown
Maps codify the miracle of existence.
~ Unknown
Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.
~ Unknown
He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.
~ Unknown
Self-expression was to be avoided. The essence of the Bauhaus design teaching that helped form Jony Ive was that what mattered in drawing technique and color exploration were the properties of the components and methods, not a personal narrative.
~ Nicholas Fox Weber
Like so many other would-be students of the mind, I had gone to sea to see the world, only to discover that all I was seeing was sea. Not even that: I was down below decks, studying the engine room of mental life, with no clear sense of where the ship was steering.
~ Unknown
How can an intelligent person, committed to choosing a new career path, decide exactly which direction to pursue?
~ Nicholas Lore
you," and he wandered
~ Unknown
I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.
~ Nicholson Baker
Warf. The space
~ Unknown
Japanophiles were people who just loved Japan without asking questions.
~ Unknown