Quotes About Exploration

Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

Every fresh advance which we make only reveals a fresh ridge beyond. And yet we have surely made some appreciable progress.

We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab, everything in shades of gray. It was my first look at the world outside Yoroido, and I didn't think I'd missed much. I could see the thatched roofs of the town around an inlet, amid dull hills, and beyond them the metal-colored sea, broken with shards of white. Inland, the landscape might have been attractive but for the train tracks running across it like a scar.

M?s savu dz?vi nodz?vojam k? ?dens, kas pl?st lejup pa kalnu, pl?stam vien? virzien?, l?dz atsitamies pret kaut ko, kas spiež m?s mekl?t jaunu virzienu.

There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in. A woman's cave is particularly special to a man if no other eel has ever been in it before.

Fakat d?? dünyaya gönderilmek, yuvan?z? terk etmenizle ayn? kap?ya ç?kmaz.

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

Als iemand iets moois ziet, denkt hij dat het af is. Dat stelt hem tevreden. Hij kijkt niet verder. Hij gaat er niet mee aan de slag. Hij durft er niet aan te slijpen, zodat wij nooit zullen weten wat er allemaal nog onder de oppervlakte zit. Die hele onzichtbare rijkdom zal nooit worden aangeboord.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Let me repeat: the principle mark of genius is not perfection, but originality, the opening of new frontiers; once this is done, the conquered territory becomes common property.

Dreaming could be described as a de-differentiation of reasoning-matrices and even, up to a point, of personal identity.

And yet, by three incorrect steps and their even more correct defence, Kepler stumbled on the correct law. It is perhaps the most amazing sleep-walking performance in the history of science-except for the manner in which he found his First Law, to which we now turn.

But the revival of a dynamic psychology which reinstated the academic respectability of such terms as curiosity, exploratory drive, purpose, only came about when experimental evidence showed that even in the rat the urge to explore may prevail over hunger and fear.

Tardé muchos años en descubrir que el inquieto viajero solo tenía una meta: huir de sí mismo

It is perhaps significant that the German word for the Creator is Schopfer, and for certain schopfen-'to scoop' in the sense of drawing water in buckets from a well. The Creator is thus visualized as creating the world out of His own depth, and the creative mind with a small c is supposed to apply a similar procedure.

The roads that lead man to knowledge are as wondrous as that knowledge itself.

There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits

When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.

She could reach up to the table and take a cookie or a spoon. She could stand at the window and look outside. She could do a lot of things now which she could not do when she was a little baby.

Now we shall touch the bottom of this swamp.

It is the artist's privilege to seek his material where he pleases, and it is no man's privilege to say him nay.

Empathy is not a feeling or sensation that suddenly washes over and engulfs us, but an intelligent, deeply respectful exploration of what lies beneath the surface of our world.

He might say he had made a mistake in moving to this foreign city—it had seemed like a good idea in California, but now where else could he go?

There was probably a range of people she had never experienced in this world and for which she had no preparation