Quotes About Exploration

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great things begin at the end of the comfort zone. It is all about exploring the bleeding edge in your own time or with someone who will not judge you for it being beyond your comfort zone

It was good to travel to the other side of the world.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

to poke its umbrella tip in the mud of the electric light

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone

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

Man cannot discover new oceans (high sea) unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.'

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Was there no end to this aimless circling through a world of green smoke? He

Frontiers of any type, physical or mental, are but a challenge to our breed. Nothing can stop the questing of men, not even Man. If we will it, not only the wonders of space, but the very stars are ours!

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

Montessori went straight to my heart, because it's all about encountering the world through the senses. That's how kids learn best. The hands are the instrument of the mind—that was how Maria Montessori put it.

Irgendetwas war falsch an dieser Vorstellung. So erregend sie war. Er machte daran herum, wie man mit der Zunge an den Zähnen herumtastet, wenn man glaubt, irgendwo könnte ein Loch sein.

You know, I ask myself what wealthy people do all day. What do you do when you aren't forced to work but still need the feeling that life must have some kind of meaning?

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny.… " —Author and former biochemistry professor Isaac Asimov

Andrew Clements

In the school library there's an old Book Week poster that says 'Get Lost in a Book.' Well, we do that. We lose ourselves in books for hours and hours—books about all kinds of people and tons of different places. Then we come back, and we bring things with us. When we get lost like that, I think we find all kinds of cool stuff.

It is the Bohemian fad to expatriate himself, to seek strange and bizarre environments. As soon as a place begins to attract civilization he flees it for some new hiding place. When he chooses a Chinese dinner he must have a restaurant where no white man has ever before trod, if he can find one. . . . As soon as others begin to frequent it also, again he flies.27

My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.

These day's I like to imagine that if a man were to enter through the slash on the book's cover, as if it were a door, he could walk right into the heart of the Inferno.