Quotes About Exploration

On n'a jamais fini d'apprendre parce qu'on n'a jamais fini d'ignorer.

El hombre no es entonces sino un accidente indiferente en la superficie de la tierra; está sobre la tierra como el explorador perdido en el desierto; puede ir a izquierda, a derecha, puede ir donde quiera, pero no llegará jamás a ninguna parte, y la arena cubrirá sus huellas.

Art and science do not establish themselves despite failure but through it;

La science, aujourd'hui, cherchera une source d'inspiration au-dessus d'elle ou périra

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure.

he saw no one clear path to Truth but a thousand paths to a thousand truths far-off and doubtful.

She knew the exaltation of starting out in the fresh morning for places she had never seen, without the bond of having to return at night.

Thule was sighted, but only from afar.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

We can pass the eight Dreadnoughts, if we are sure of the eight Shackleton's.

My nerves tingled with the sense of adventure. Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver, and, walking swiftly up the door, I looked in.

but still we may as well learn all there is to be learned.

Deep seemed the valleys when we lay between the reeling seas.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

You can never know enough about your characters.

Un petit échantillon

So, says Jack at at last...you broke up with Connor. Wow. So we're straight to the point. So, I reply defiantly. You decided to stay. Yes, well..., I thought I might take a closer look at some of the European subsidiaries. He looks up. How about you? Same reason. I nod. European subsidiaries.

Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.

You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road... you're practically still in the womb. So before you lecture me on the way to live my life, try living one of your own, OK?

You should always be thinking: This is OK…but what else could I be doing?

wackeres Stapfen durch die verregnete Oxford Street. Und mit einer Tonschale kann man nichts verkehrt machen, oder? Es gab da auf dem Markt auch Herrenbrieftaschen.