Quotes About Exploration

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

Be an opener of doors

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Build therefore your own world.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Go where there is no path and leave a trail.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Children are all foreigners.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ? Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Life is an experiment. The more experiments the better

Todo barco es un objeto romántico hasta que nos embarcamos en él

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough