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Quotes About Exploration

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.
~ Maria Konnikova
A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
~ Saint Augustine
You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.
~ Tim Ferriss
The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.
~ Gever Tulley
Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.
~ James V. Schall
Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.
~ Bathsua Makin
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
~ Lev Grossman
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
~ Nathanael Emmons
Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.
~ Saint Augustine
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.
~ Miley Cyrus
There is never such a thing as learning too much. We can always delve deeper, and in fact we should!
~ Sundra Oakley
I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.
~ Shirley MacLaine
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
~ Tom Peters
That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
~ Scott Westerfeld
We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.
~ Sara Sheridan
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
~ J. Norman Collie
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
~ Ramona Koval
I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.
~ Mehcad Brooks
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.
~ Lucy Larcom
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
~ John Banville