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

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Science, Fields

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

  Robert Ballard

  Educational, Discovery, Archaeology

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Courage, Powerful, Fear

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• I do not explain, I explore.

  Marshall McLuhan

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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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  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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• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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• 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

  Writing, Winning, Way

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

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• Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

  Frank Borman

  Discovery, Essence, Spirit

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• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

  Edith Widder

  Innovation, Growth, Economic

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• Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well, we've been there," and come back, interesting though it may be. To me, each time we go farther into space we should use that to do basic research - basic research that can't be done before you go there.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, Space, Interesting

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

  Frank Herbert

  Limits, Firsts, Accepted

  "Doll Factory, Gun Factory" in "he Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction" edited by Tim O'Reilly, 1987.

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• There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Different, Might

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• If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

  Chaim Potok

  Writing, Discovery, Agony

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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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• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept

  Wally Schirra

  Thinking, Years, Space

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• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  Manuel Puig

  Ghouls, Film, Audience

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