#Exploration Quotes

“a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.”

“Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,And so am come abroad to see the world.”

“Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”

“There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.”

“Swim out of your little pond.”

“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”

“Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.”

“If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.”

“Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.”

“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”

“If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?”

“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,That dying chose the living world for textAnd never could have rested in the tombBut that, long travelling, he had comeTowards nightfall upon certain set apartIn a most desolate stony place.”

“And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.”

“Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.”

“I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.”

“The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.”

“Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."”

“It's silly to build a wall around your interests.”

“There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.”

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

“We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“The wonders of nature are endless.”

“The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?”

“My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.”

“There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.”

“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.”

“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

“I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.”

“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.”

“I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.”

“Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.”

“Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.”

“We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."”

“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.”

“Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.”

“The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.”

“We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.”

“It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.”

“Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!”

“Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.”

“To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."”

“There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.”

“Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money.”

“It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.”

“Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.”

“Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”

“Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.”

“Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.”