Quotes about Exploration

Tolerance, and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start. Never has there been a time more favorable to pioneers than the present. True, there is no wild and woolly west to be conquered, as in the days of the Covered Wagon; but there is a vast business, financial, and industrial world to be remoulded and redirected along new and better lines.

Open all the doors. Don't commit yourself to just one idea of happiness. Remove the idea of happiness that you have, and then happiness can come, this afternoon.

Try to learn something about everything.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. ( Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find Him.

What you fear is an indication of what you seek.

SIT FINIS LIBRI, NON FINIS QUAERENDI

In one sense we are always travelling, and travelling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.