Quotes About Exploration

Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46

The best way to beat the enemy is probably to go to their homeland. As our former leader Deng Xiaoping put it, we'll cross the river by touching the stones."49

When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both men and women) is, What is it that we long for? Or perhaps, What are we lacking so that we can turn life in the direction we want? Creativity? Confidence? Authority? Recklessness? Irresponsibility? Or even darkness? Perhaps the lover is the outlaw in ourselves we don't quite have the nerve to claim. (p. 34)

would there not be another hunger on him all his life? For other scents and sights and sounds; pale and changeful northern skies and the green plover calling?

Hard roads and wide will run through Raintree County. You will hunt it on the map, and it won't be there.

You're making this up" "I am not" "What woods are you talking about" "It's on the peninsula someplace. I didnt pay good attention on the way. I was strung out on an Einstein trip." "Einstein Trip" When you go all the way out, past the last star, and space loops back on you.

Approach a trip as a chance to collect unique experiences, not passport stamps, postcards and snapshots in front of famous monuments.

Travel is an urge best cultivated from within.

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Push yourself out of your comfort zone and see what you are really capable of.

Books are a bit like time travel, aren't they? They can pick you up out of your life and put you in someone else's? It's just a shame that at some point you always have to come back.

It's about the feeling you get: the road beneath the soles of your feet, the smell in the air. It makes you feel strong, somehow, invincible.

the most wonderful discoveries that have ever been made by mankind always happen when someone decides to believe in the impossible. 8 JULY 'The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything.

Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.

Conquest of Disease, The Conquest of Pain, The Conquest of Tuberculosis, The Conquest of Cancer, The Conquest of the Unknown and The Conquest of Brain Mysteries

Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.

It is worthwhile studying other peoples, because every understanding of another culture is an experiment with our own.

If you should stick only to what you know, we should worry about the thousands of authors who write about murder. If

El protagonista es el Poeta, siempre el Poeta, solo, desconocido, abandonado, hambriento, casi un mendigo, y, sin embargo, como Colón lleva un mundo a la cabeza.

A vida é assim mesmo. É sempre possível deixar o barco atracado ou só navegar nas baías mansas. Aí não há perigo de naufrágio. Mas não há o prazer do calafrio e do desconhecido.

Talvez seja por isso que os navegadores navegam: porque no perigo e no abismo eles veem refletida a eternidade.

a vida é brinquedo que para nada serve, a não ser para a alegria! Entregue-se, sem vergonha e sem sentimentos de culpa, às delícias do ócio. Aprenda a andar sem ter de chegar a lugar algum, simplesmente gozando o mundo que nos cerca! Faça o fantástico turismo gratuito dos livros.

...I didn't do anything that can properly be called research; rather, I proceeded by the methodless method of "determined browsing"—

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.