Quotes About Exploration

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

remember to look up at the stars

No, pero me gustaría verlas.

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Seek with enough conviction aforethought and ye shall find.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

I write to find out what I think.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

where the world ends is where you must begin

once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual

Memory is the basis of every journey.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond

I'm so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

Books were escape. Books were freedom.

Go, then, there are other worlds than these.' 

no knowledge obtained without risk

Wandering's the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.

The road, and the mysteries that lie along it, calls out to none as it calls to the young.