Quotes About Exploration

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

In the real world, it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head

Whether they will or no, Americans must begin to look outward.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

To be everywhere at once and to know everybody was, after all, but to slip the cables of the tiny, separate self, and experience the Whole. Hence the desire to be elsewhere and otherwise. Hence, too, the innate yearning to share experiences of all kinds with others.

Air represented a confident and free imagination in which everything was possible. Earth he still loved, but only as a place to land on and take off from.

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

You (humans) think that you are insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.

Now what we don't want is Facts. What we want is bewilderment. What we want is repetition. What we want is repetition.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

I don't know, her mother says. I don't know much about it. It was quite hard to find out anything. But I'm finding it quite enjoyable, not knowing.

Yeah, but the thing I particularly like about the word but, now that I think about it, is that it always takes you off to the side, and where it takes you is always interesting.