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Quotes About Exploration

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
~ Geoff Dyer
When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.
~ Jonah Lehrer
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
~ Stephen Hawking
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.
~ Simon Newcomb
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
~ Robert Lynd
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
~ John Locke
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
~ Thomas A. Edison
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.
~ Gloria Steinem, Marilyn
Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.
~ Brian Tracy
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
~ William Gilbert
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
~ Hosea Ballou
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is
~ Richard P. Feynman
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
~ Thomas C Foster
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
~ Louis L'Amour
"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."
~ Denis Waitley
There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.
~ janet asimov
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
~ Terence McKenna
Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
~ John of Salisbury
You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.
~ Jim Carrey
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
~ Bayard Taylor