Quotes About Exploration

Let me remind you of something Einstein once said: "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?"

Der ungenannte Wunsch, von Leben und Land nie erfüllt, jetzt Reisender, segle vorwärts, zu suchen und zu finden.

From A Ride Along the Great Wall, Page 112:

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn't lose any wild pigs, did you?

So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day

He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt!

Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know.

We'd had a message from Just, the first to reach us in many a month. He and Hearth had left home almost three years ago. With youth's fine disregard for the concerns of their elders, they'd sent messages only sporadically.

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

He came one late, wet spring, and brought the wide world back to my doorstep.

The white prophet Gerda was barely twenty when she set out into the world to find her Catalyst. She had dreamed of her often since she was an infant. She travelled far from the peaceful green lands of her birth, going both by sea and by land, to a village far in the mountains where a peak smoked in the distance and glowed red at night

All of us stand on the edge of the future; why venture off the precipice?

I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found.

Shall not I drive you through seas no other man would dare, shall not we together see lands that are the stuff of legends? Shall not we venture together under skies where the stars have not been named yet? Shall not we, you and I, weave such a tale of our adventures that the whole world will be in awe of us?

other tales, the sailors reach a land of intelligent talking animals who find humans disgusting and rather stupid.

I have always been more curious than wise. Yet any wisdom I have ever gained has come to me from my curiosity. So I have never learned to turn away from it.

You are gifted and capable beyond your wildest imagination. You have not yet begun to explore all the ways you can make your life count for eternity. Strength and dignity are your clothing. It's time for you to drop your bucket deep down into the well of possibilities that you've been ignoring all these years. Drop it all the way down and see what you pull up." I

I wish I was here, or I wish I was there...' In our age of global travel we are all potential heirs to the simile of Hera's flight.

Life would be pretty monotonous if the sky was always blue.

I'd been a long way from the campus but sometimes I felt the vibrations of my peer group. I understood some of the reasons for their revolt. Wasn't my voyage prompted by the same longings for freedom, the same desire to get out of the rut an routine, to prove something to myself - to prove perhaps that a kid doesn't have to be boxed in until he is a mental and spiritual dummy in a business suit?

Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

No matter what our age, we ought to never stop eating books, for books are the feast of the imagination.