(481 quotes found)
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.”
T.S. Eliot
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”
E. L. Doctorow
“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”
John Hope Franklin
“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.”
Mark Twain
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
Richard Dawkins
“Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.”
Wilfred Peterson
“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”
Thornton Wilder
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.”
Frank Borman
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
Ansel Adams
“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”
Claude Debussy
