Quotes about Exploration
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
— Laurence Sterne
It would seem as if there never was a book written, or a story told, expressly with the object of keeping boys on shore, which did not lure and charm them to the ocean, as a matter of course.
— Charles Dickens
I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.
— Charles Dickens
Yes. I'm going to take a holiday. More than that; I'm going to take a walk. More than that; I'm going to ask you to take a walk with me.
— Charles Dickens
The large rooms are too cramped and close. She cannot endure their restraint, and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden.
— Charles Dickens
There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.
— Charles Dickens
Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows...
— Walt Whitman
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
— Mark Twain
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin