Quotes About Exploration

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

the only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

There's gotta be a way out of this dungeon.- G. Gygax

Please ta meetcha, kid. I'm Aahz. Oz? No Relation. No relation to what? I asked, but he was examining the room again.

To travel is better than to arrive.

Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.

Science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see.

Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere.

I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land.

Yolculuk etmek bazen, varmaktan daha iyidir.

And from time to time you find your "county road" takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a pasture and stops, or else it takes you into some farmer's backyard.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.

He is not stubborn, not narrow-minded, not lazy, not stupid. There was just no easy explanation. So it was left up in the air, a kind of mystery that one gives up on because there is no sense in just going round and round and round looking for an answer that's not there.

After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine.

So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in one pocket for overcast days when the sun doesn't show directions and have the map mounted in a special carrier on top of the gas tank where I can keep track of miles from the last junction and know what to look for. With those tools and a lack of pressure to 'get somewhere' it works out fine and we just about have America all to ourselves.

Cromwell's statement, "No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going

Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration's programs, "We'll just try them…and if they don't work…why then we'll just try something else.

A very strong case can be made for the statement that science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.

I'm happy to be riding back into this country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.