Quotes About Exploration

Art originates in experiment

The heart of so great a mystery cannot ever be reached by following one road only." Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 345 – 402) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters; from Augustine, in controversy with St. Ambrose. Quoted by Arnold Toynbee.

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An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe.

The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey.

We are always afraid of the unknown.

We're not allowed miracles," she told John. "We traded them in for technology some years ago and now we're stuck with finding out how things work.

I loved the world of imagination.

The first book I opened looked promising—Mummies and Their Secrets by Sir Lynn N. Bandage.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

What happened to all those leading men of the great bacchanalia? They either died of AIDS or accepted roles as supporting actors in the middlebrow drama series of hetero culture-you know, if they're to kiss, we must have sunsets in the background. Once they were proud to explore every crevice of life in the margins, now their ambition is just to get along. Color me unimpressed.

I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.