Exploration Quotes

• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing, Personal Writing

  "The Myth Maker". Interview with Bruce Weber, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 1985.

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• In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

  Ansel Adams

  Life, Wisdom, Photography

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• Explore. Dream. Discover.

  Mark Twain

  Dream

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Ocean, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 193, 1980.

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• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Science, Fields

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  Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Change, Power

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

  Dale Dauten

  Motivational, Mean, Track

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  The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

  John Steinbeck

  Freedom, I Hate You, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

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• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Halloween, Creativity, Ideas

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• Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

  Frank Borman

  Discovery, Essence, Spirit

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• The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

  Pema Chodron

  Bail, Tricks, Exploring

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Stars, Nebula

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Waiting, Entertainment

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• My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Travel, Reading, Writing

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

  Duane G. Carey

  Wanted, New Things, Decided

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• Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean Exploration, Southern, Hemisphere

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• The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Philosophical, Men, Landscape

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• If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

  John L. Phillips

  Risk, Might, Territory

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• We shall not cease from exploration

  T. S. Eliot

  Nature, Cease

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.

  Helen Keller

  Art, Spring, Pride

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Science

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Believe, Reality, Space

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