Quotes About Exploration

Let us go back a little farther and read on until we come to these words, for we must not seek to learn the whole meaning of the section, from the concluding parts of it, or, if I may so say, from the tail of the chapter.

Education is not just about learning facts, but about learning how to learn.

You went to somewhere to do something with an anticipated goal in mind, something you couldn't do elsewhere and be the same Self.

A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.

Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,

Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.

We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

In this game, mistakes and errors are good. They help us uncover new relationships.

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

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To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

For the workers under scrutiny, mental stimulation is dulled, they decide neither the problems to be solved nor how to solve them, and there is no excitement of venturing into the unknown because the unknown is beyond the measureable.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

me lleva a internarme por un cultivo de maíz cercado por eucaliptos errantes.