Quotes About Exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.

An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.

I went to Philippines and I literally had the time of my life.

I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.