Quotes about Exploration

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ? Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Transcendentalists assert that the human mind is the same—and just as open to inspiration—across all boundaries of geography, culture, race, and religion. They celebrate the expansive, daring explorations of the Eastern mind, and find much wisdom in Hinduism and Buddhism.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and' t is mere tinsel; {it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.