Quotes About Exploration

We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored. Now we live in ignorance of the freedom and simplicity of consciousness, prior to the arising of thought.

Consciousness is the basis of both the examined and the unexamined life. It is all that can be seen and that which does the seeing. No matter how far you have traveled from the place of your birth, and however much you now understand about the world, you have been exploring consciousness and its changes. Why not do so directly?

If you're bored, maybe you're a boring person. With all there is to see and do, there's no excuse for boredom. Get up. Get going. Start a project. Finish a project. Call a friend. Call an enemy. Write something down. Tear something up. Spin something around. Find something true.

Curiosity is straight fire for creativity.

Curiosity is straight fire for creativity. By exploring, you bring insights and inspiration to imagination.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

Diamonds are obtained by mining under the earth. Dig deep within your soul, and you'll gain new riches of understanding, wisdom, and power. —James Allen

Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out.

I remember him saying over and over again: go in and check our competition. Check everyone who is our competition. And don't look for the bad. Look for the good. If you get one good idea, that's one more than you went into the store with, and we must try to incorporate it into our company. We're really not concerned with what they're doing wrong, we're concerned with what they're doing right, and everyone is doing something right.

Helen and I made it a point to take the whole family out and spend time traveling or camping together. Sometimes the kids thought of these trips as forced marches, but I think that time we spent together has had a lot to do with our close relationship as a family today. We have a lot of good memories of traveling all over the country, especially in this one fine old DeSoto station wagon.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

To bring back riches from the East you must bring riches with you.

Once a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

The flesh of animals who feed excursively, is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up. May there not be the same difference between men who read as their taste prompts and men who are confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks?

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

I) want to do everything and see everything, sense everything and feel everything and taste everything; to know that life is an enormous experience and must be used. To be in the world, and of the world, and never to stand aside and watch.

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it could furnish him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, or ornaments, or play-withs, but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

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