Quotes About Exploration

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Don't just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them.

I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.

The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had sincerely tried many of them. He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and then supped on lobster; he had made himself ill with doses of opium. Nothing greatly original had resulted from these measures; and

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Proceeding by loops and zig-zags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.

More than three centuries and a half ago, in the mid spring-time of 1492, we are sure that the angel of the dawn, as he travelled with broad slow wing from the Levant to the Pillars of Hercules, and from the summits of the Caucasus across all the snowy Alpine ridges to the dark nakedness of the Western isles, saw nearly the same outline of firm land and unstable sea

It is ever the trial of the scrupulous explorer to be saluted with the impatient scorn of chatterers who attempt only the smallest achievements, being indeed equipped for no other. And it were well if all such could be admonished to discriminate judgments of which the true subject-matter lies entirely beyond their reach, from those of which the elements may be compassed by a narrow and superficial survey.

But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight — that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

A child's name is his portal to the world.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Every path hath a puddle.