Quotes About Exploration

This will force you to dig deep, exercise your creative half, and find the positive insight in any topic that arises.

we seek to understand, not necessarily to find a complete and final solution.

C'est le chemin qui est important!

the feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic

One longs for news from the buried ruins of some stronghold miraculously untouched since Batu Khan set fire to it, the trove, perhaps, of some Transylvanian forester digging out a fox or a badger and suddenly tumbling through the creepers and the roots into a dry vault full of iron chests abrim with parchments...

the Zoltán utca and picked up a

How exhilarating to be away from the plain! With every minute that passed the mountains climbed with great resolution.

How enjoyable, how very enjoyable and luxurious it is, suddenly to emerge from the stern labyrinth of fact onto these dawn-lit uplands of surmise!

intending to push on at night again. We spent a

I was happy when I walked the streets of Paris by myself.

Siempre he creído que hay lugares que son imanes y te atraen si pasas por las inmediaciones. Y eso de forma imperceptible, sin que te lo malicies siquiera. Basta con una calle en cuesta, con una acera al sol, o con una acera a la sombra. O con un chaparrón. Y te llevan a ese lugar, al punto preciso en el que debías encallar.

Depuis l'enfance et l'adolescence, j'éprouvais une très vive curiosité et une attirance particulière pour tout ce qui concernait les mystères de Paris.

At night on the streets you feel like a participant of another, second life, much more exciting than the first one, or just imagine it.

Cette sensation d'étrangeté est la même que celle qui vous prend lorsque vous marchez en rêve dans un quartier inconnu. Au réveil, vous réalisez peu à peu que les rues de ce quartier étaient décalquées sur celles qui vous sont familières le jour.

A book… it's a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it." [ Patrick Ness slams library cuts ( The Guardian , 23 June 2011)]

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don't know how to find it, if you don't even know where to begin to look. - on librarians

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky's too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?' 'And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there's so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don't get any work done because we're all looking at it too much?

We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.

Marty: Dad's right about you. You got lost on your journey somewhere. Adam: That's what everyone says who never bothered to go on a journey in the first place.

You got lost on your journey somewhere." "That's what everyone says who never bothered to go on a journey in the first place.

But I'm still thinking about being born on a spaceship, an honest to badness spaceship. Growing up while flying along the stars, able to go wherever you wanted, not stuck on some hateful planet which clearly don't want you. You could go anywhere. If one place didn't suit, you'd find another. Full freedom in all direkshuns. Could there possibly be anything cooler in the whole world than that?