Quotes about Exploration

Every wall is a door.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ? Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.