Quotes about Exploration

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

Perhaps we have to learn that life was not meant to be lived in security but with adventurous courage

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore asks Snape not to wake Harry: "Let him sleep. For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God's voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.

Man is incurably curious.

I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.