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Quotes about Exploration

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
— Abraham Lincoln
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
— Alain de Botton
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
— Alan Hirsch
we will never be faithful in the biblical sense if we never move from home base.
— Alan Hirsch
I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.
— Diane von Furstenberg
We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
— Dolly Parton
One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.
— Don Piper
If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
— John Maxwell
The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.
— Dale Carnegie
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
— Charles Kettering