Exploring Quotes

• 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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  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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• 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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• And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

  Earl Mac Rauch

  Happiness, Being Yourself, Travel

  Earl Mac Rauch (2001). “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• He who strays discovers new paths.

  Nils Kjaer

  Travel, Path, New Paths

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• In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Psychics, Space

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.272, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is little difference in being lost and exploring.

  Dan Eldon

  Differences, Littles, Lost

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• Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

  Justina Chen

  Travel, Getting Lost, Way

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

  Randall Munroe

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing

  Webcomic by Randall Munroe, xkcd.com.

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• Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

  Gordon Parks

  Hard Work, Long, African American

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• The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

  Robert Ballard

  Educational, Discovery, Exploration

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• After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Eternal Youth of Sophia Loren". www.theuppers.com. May 01, 2017.

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• You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

  Ed Paschke

  Design, Interest, Concepts

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• You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.90, New World Library

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• EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Exploring The World, Mind, Way

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.16, Penguin

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Dark, Light, Loving You

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 16, 2016

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  All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

  Marie Curie

  Life, Nature, Children

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

  Elon Musk

  Stars, Differences, Space

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

  Gus Grissom

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space". Book by Virgil I. Grissom, 1968.

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• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Andre Breton

  Fate, Finding Yourself, Trying

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• Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Home, Moon, Leaving

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

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• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  J. William Fulbright

  Change, Thinking, World

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