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Quotes About Exploration

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
~ Franz Grillparzer
We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.
~ Tariq Ramadan
The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.
~ Fred Vargas
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
~ Eduardo Chillida
Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.
~ Lauren Mayberry
On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.
~ Walther Nernst
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are to the adventurous."
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.
~ Stuart Wilde
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
~ Bruce Chatwin
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
~ Samuel Johnson
I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
~ Stephen Fry
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
~ Rudolf Steiner
If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.
~ Danielle LaPorte
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
~ Lewis Carroll
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
~ John Dewey
He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.
~ Isaac Newton
There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.
~ Martha Stewart
Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.
~ Jacob Bronowski
There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.
~ Matt Haig
In the field of knowledge is all possibility.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci