Quotes About Exploration

Sometimes, the Best Adventures are the Ones We can only Dream about.

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

I tasted freedom and a way of life from which there could be no recall.

The deserts in which I have travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no known past.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

You did not know, Little Man, what a library is for.

Bir ?eyin ters gitmesi kötü de?ildir, sadece hiçbir ?eyi denememi? olmak kötüdür.

Buna göre insan olman?n anlam?, insan olman?n bütün imkanlar?n? denemekte yat?yor olabilir.

As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the human spirit but can be assembled extensively by collecting and classifying facts, everything is irrevocably and forever lost.

A team of researchers at the University of Oregon explored the link between cognitive control and intelligence in several ways, including an attempt to raise intelligence by improving the control of attention.

watercooler conversations that intelligently explore the lessons that can be learned from the past while resisting the lure of hindsight and the illusion of certainty.

Links, sagte Humboldt. Wieso links, fragte Bonpland. Also rechts, sagte Humboldt. Aber warum rechts? Zum Teufel, rief Humboldt, jetzt werde es ihm zu blöd.

Insa, cand au trecut de primele suburbii ale Berlinului si Humboldt si-a inchipuit cum Gauss a cercetat corpurile ceresti prin telescopul sau in tot acest timp - corpuri ceresti ale caror orbite pot fi descrise in formule simple -, n-a mai fost in stare sa spuna care dintre ei doi a ramas acasa si care a colindat lumea.

Wie leicht alles wurde, wenn man aufbrach.

Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.

Humboldt disse che anche lui voleva viaggiare. Forster annuì. È un desiderio che provano in tanti, disse. E tutti se ne pentono. Perché? Perché non si ritorna mai.

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

I think it is much better not to have a goal, but rather to have a path. I think it is much better not to have a goal, but rather to have a path. Taking the path is very vulnerable and threatened by being pulled to the left or to the right, but if you stay on this thin and narrow, straight path, something of an adventure, something of meaning will happen to you

We use our eyes to look into space and our imaginations to look into time.

A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means to his pleasure, and soon you will not be able to keep him from it.

Mais c'est comme ça, la vie : si vous rencontrez un être humain dans la foule, suivez-le... suivez-le.

Não se esforça a curiosidade, desperta-se