Quotes About Exploration

And so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing.

said this. He kept on looking through

But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...

She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

They got up steam and proceeded calmly to the north - where there seemed to be no people, but only mountains, lakes, reedy snow-filled steppes, and winter gods who played with storms and stars.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart.

All great discoveries," the elder Marratta had once said, "are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents." At

A friend once told me that I find my stories because I never learned to drive. It's true. I take the bus. I walk around. By being out there—not the driver of my story but the literal and figurative rider—I have the opportunity to see things that I would never otherwise see. I

Viking is a term—thought to have its root in the old Norse vika, meaning "to go off"—for Scandinavians who left their native land to seek wealth in commerce.

As soon as we are born, we are part of an endless search that really goes nowhere.

Of course, there will always be times that we need to find our very precise way. But more often than not, our image of a destination is only a starting point that we cling to needlessly. When we can free up our sense of needing to arrive in a certain place, we lessen the weight of being lost. And once beneath arriving and beneath our fear of failing to arrive, the real journey begins.

If counseling is a process of discovery and recovery, then grace is essential to help clients experience enough safety to explore the hidden places of their lives.

Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.

An unread book is a world unexplored

I think a good novel makes the reader think not just about what happened, but about what is possible

Given the state of airlines and airports these days, I travel extensively by opening a book.

Imagination creates its own possibilities.

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

No Islamic nation could have flown to the moon or invented the Internet, simply because for a millennium the culture has suppressed the curiosity necessary for such a venture.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Why didn't someone hand those newly sighted people paints and brushes from the start, when they still didn't know what anything was? Then maybe we all could see color-patches too, the world unraveled from reason, Eden before Adam gave names. The scales would drop from my eyes; I'd see trees like men walking; I'd run down the road against all orders, allowing and leaping.