Quotes About Exploration

Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

The secret of success lies in this simple sentence: Why not?

Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.

Sí, pero, ¿adónde vamos? -Ya os lo he dicho. Donde el aire es puro, donde el ruido adormece, donde por orgulloso que el hombre sea se siente humillado y pequeño; amo estas impresiones, yo, a quien llaman el dueño del mundo como a Augusto. -Pero, ¿adónde vais? -Al mar

Then Dantes rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated. "And now," he exclaimed, remembering the tale of the Arabian fisherman, which Faria had related to him, "now, open sesame!

And follow me wherever I go?'—'To the world's end.

Crois-moi, on cherche mal quand on ne réfléchit pas.

already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain. The

Mais dans ce monde il faut bien risquer quelque chose.

Captain van Deken

Ne craignez pas les occasions et cherchez les aventures.

relates that on his first visit to M.

Importa mucho conocer el terreno que pisamos

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

With a heart of furious fancies Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander. With a knight of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney, Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end — Methinks it is no journey. —TOM·A·BEDLAM

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.

Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end, but all the best stories begin in a library.