Quotes About Exploration

WHEN I GROW UP I'M GOING TO FIND OUT EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYBODY AND PUT IT ALL IN A BOOK. THE BOOK IS GOING TO BE CALLED SECRETS BY HARRIET M. WELSCH. I WILL ALSO HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS IN IT AND MAYBE SOME MEDICAL CHARTS IF I CAN GET THEM.

She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn.

I want to know everything, everything, screeched Harriet suddenly, lying back and bouncing up and down on the bed. Everything in the world, everything, everything. I will be a spy and know everything. It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Harriet never minded admitting when she didn't know something. 'So what,' she thought, 'I can always learn.

There's something very pleasant about a language you don't understand... It's like a fog swirling around in our thoughts... It's nice, it's like a dream, there's really nothing better... It's fine as long as the words stay in the dream...

C'est bon les villes inconnues ! C'est le moment et l'endroit où on peut supposer que les gens qu'on rencontre sont tous gentils. C'est le moment du rêve. On peut profiter que c'est le rêve pour aller perdre quelque temps au jardin public.

Whereas while you're travelling, nobody really knows. While you're travelling you still have the potential to do anything, be anything. It's only when you stop and actually try to do those things that you discover your own capabilities, I guess.

We'll get there. Think of this as an adventure, not a problem.

Living in a country where I didn't speak the language suited me just fine. Everything was an adventure, including buying milk at the corner store. I developed the art of getting lost... It was a safe kind of chaos, and at some point that I was cultivating my 'aloneness' in this strange place as a method for putting off loneliness.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

You never can tell what you can do till you try.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?

It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it is such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then would there?

Czy to nie przyjemnie, ?e jest tak du?o rzeczy, które jeszcze poznamy? To wÅ'aÅ›nie sprawia, ?e ja siÄ™ tak cieszÄ™ ?yciem... Å›wiat jest taki ciekawy... Nie byÅ'by taki ani w poÅ'owie, gdybyÅ›my wszystko o nim wiedzieli, prawda?

Non è bellissimo pensare a tutte le cose che ci sono ancora da scoprire?

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

Philosophy] must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits to what cannot be thought by working outwards through what can be thought.

We feel as if we had to penetrate phenomena: our investigation, however, is directed not towards phenomena, but, as one might say, towards the 'possibilities' of phenomena.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc. etc., - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc. etc.

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