Quotes about Exploration
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
— Henry David Thoreau
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
— Edmund Hillary
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
— Khalil Gibran
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
— Hippocrates
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
— Victor Hugo
Only those who seek shall find.
— Robin Sharma
Every once in a while, take the scenic route.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
— Albert Schweitzer
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
— Walt Disney
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
— CS Lewis