Quotes About Exploration

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

no knowledge obtained without risk

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

I seek and search for the light of knowledge.

Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around.