Quotes About Exploration

Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live...in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

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the adventure of the soul among the masterpieces.

Qu'est-ce que veut dire voyager? Changer de lieu? Pas du tout! En voyageant, on change aussi ses opinions et ses préjugés.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

What I do know is that if one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

Sammen finder vi ikke hinanden, men vi begynder måske at finde os selv.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

The more I saw, however, the more I needed to see. I tried to settle down back home in Los Angeles, but I missed that feeling, that rush. I went to see a doctor about it. He told me I should slow down for a while, take a break. I just nodded and left, booked a flight out that day. It didn't seem possible to stop.

Partir pour le pôle intérieur de soi-même.

Perhaps] I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I've forgotten.

La plus grande faiblesse de la pensée contemporaine me paraît résider dans la surestimation extravagante du connu par rapport à ce qui reste à connaître.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage. (One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.)

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.