Quotes About Exploration

I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn't allow me to feel either great or miserable.

If you feel like it, come with me. I will tell you a story. I'll show you something.

I wish I could hold up that knife and tear open the world. I'd slice it open and climb through to the next one.

He was into the skating culture now and I was into, well, I'm not sure what I was into. I was into roaming around on my own, and I enjoyed it.

ducking around twisted trees whose fingers are branches spread like cracked ceilings under gray sky.

Sometimes you go to the wrong place, but the right way comes and finds you.

It travelled and wondered, but it disclosed no answers. Not yet.

Le gustaban los corrillos apretados y lo desconocido. La agridulce sensación de la incertidumbre: Ganar o perder.

If there are alleys inside me, there must also be hallways. I

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere.

Still, I walk on, through a dream that takes me through these pages. I

That's the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end.

It's mostly readers of my books who come to be with us. The tours become an extension of the books. Guests want to see the places I write about. They want to be where we are. I guess they want also to feel what I feel. They want to step through a magic door.

The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.

One of the things I fucking hate about my fellow Americans: whenever they fly to a foreign country, first thing they do, they try to find as much of America as they can get their hands on, even if it's food in the shitty cafeteria.

The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function. McLuhan CD-ROM

Our time is a time to cross barriers, for erasing old categories — for probing around. When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised, put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result

Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms.

But I think I've learned a lesson and that is that you have to find your own answers on things. Even if they're wrong answers. The point is in the finding.

Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end.

What would you rather? yelled Sybil from the distant sandpit. Know everything or know nothing? Know nothing, I yelled back. Then you have the fun of finding everything out.

The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go.

There are not many road signs in Russia, you know.' He laughed. 'If you don't know where the road goes, you shouldn't be on it.'" — Arkady Renko from Gorky Park

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