Quotes About Exploration

We weren't born yesterday. We are from [New York]. But we are also from somewhere else. We are from Oz, from the Looking-Glass Land, from Narnia, and from Middle Earth. If with part of ourselves we are men and women of the world and share the sad unbeliefs of the world, with a deeper part still, the part where our best dreams come from, it is as if we were indeed born yesterday, or almost yesterday, because we are also all of us children still.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

La investigación es una necesidad continua y la savia de la buena conservación.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

Some are shy of going to the source For riches begin in the sea.

Alles prüfe der Mensch, dass er Danken für alles lernt und verstehe die Freiheit, aufzubrechen, wohin er will.

Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe. (One can as well fall into height as into depth)

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

Wohl bin ich ein Wald und eine Nacht dunkler Bäume: doch wer sich vor meinem Dunkel nicht scheut, der findet auch Rosenhänge unter meinen Zypressen.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

We have forsaken the land and gone to sea! We have destroyed the bridge behind us – more so, we have demolished the land behind us! Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean; it is true, it does not always roar, and at times it lies there like silk and gold and dreams of goodness. But there will be hours when you realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome than infinity.

Here is the great city: here have you nothing to seek and everything to lose.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.

O my brothers, your nobility should not look backward but ahead! Exiles shall you be from all father- and forefather-lands! Your children's land shall you love: this love shall be your new nobility — the undiscovered land in the most distant sea. For that I bid your sails search and search. In your children you shall make up for being the children of your fathers: thus shall you redeem all that is past.

Life is a journey so everyone is a tourist