Quotes about Exploration
Happiness extends just as far as study extends, and the more someone studies, the happier he is.
— Aristotle
Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.
— Arthur C. Clarke
he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
My nerves tingled with the sense of adventure. Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver, and, walking swiftly up the door, I looked in.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.
— George Eliot
Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
— Henri Nouwen
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
— Isabel Allende
At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.
— John Milton
Asking questions is the key to understanding.
— John Piper
Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.
— John Piper
An unguarded face is a deep well; you don't go there casually, without ropes or lamps.
— Barbara Brown Taylor