Quotes About Exploration

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself.

Ten times ten thousand books. More than that. More books than you could ever read." Abenthy's voice grew vaguely wistful. More books than I could read? Somehow I doubted that.

There was obviously more to the story, more that I needed to know.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers... That way, when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him.

need to go chase the wind for a while, you are too serious.

But an exceptionally clever student could take a book out-side, thus bettering himself without fear of lessening his much-loved faculty of sight.

I learned more from a month on the road than I had in three years of classes." Kvothe nodded. "Teccam said the same thing: no man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

Perhaps it is human nature to seek out hidden things".

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most.

Auri's heart beat faster then. It had been ages since she'd come on somewhere wholly new. A place that dared to be entirely itself.

I learned more from a month on the road than I had in three years of classes (...) No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveller, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers." I

If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

Though I didn't know it at the time, I was looking for the name of the wind.

Si quieres saber quién eres, camina hasta que no haya nadie que sepa tu nombre.

He had soon so thoroughly smelled out the quarter between Saint-Eustache and the Hôtel de Ville that he could find his way around in it by pitch-dark night. And so he expanded his hunting grounds, first westward to the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, then out along the rue Saint-Antoine to the Bastille, and finally across to the other bank of the river into the quarters of the Sorbonne and the Faubourg Saint-Germain where the rich people lived.

People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

Thanks. Any idea how to ride a flying horse?" Argus said. "Not really, but I'd imagine it would be along the lines of get in the saddle and don't fall off," Murphy said.

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

But the boy was not cheated by her ignorance. He was not intensely interested in answers, the things themselves were enough. So he ran on, holding the leaf by its twig, or feather by its quill, and whereas his mother thought mostly of arriving, discovery kept him in a state of endless being.

I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.

Well I haven't fucked much with the past, But I've fucked plenty with the future. - Babelogue

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.