Quotes About Exploration

...I felt it would push me out of my comfort zone and develop my skills. And that's what it's all about - do something new and learn something from it.

Ten lands are sooner known than one man.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go.

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

I'm tired of entirely new things, " Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

What does it matter?" I shrugged. "It's interesting and anything thats interesting is worth learning.

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.

Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

Saying 'I don't know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

If I could know me I could know the universe.

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.