Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Exploration Quotes
CuriosityExplorationPerceptionSocial ConnectionUnderstanding Others Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.
ExplorationGold and PearlsIndigenous CulturesNavigation The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.
AweExistenceExplorationFreedomPerspective Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
ExplorationIdentityPotentialSelfAwarenessVision You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
DiscoveryExplorationFutureInnovationScience The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I'm sure of it, even if it's not tomorrow.
CuriosityExperienceExplorationLearningScience My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
ExplorationFreedomNaturePerspective I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
ExplorationPerspectiveRepetition There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.
CourageExperienceExplorationGrowthHumility I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.
ExplorationImaginationInnovationPerceptionQuestioning The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to.
CreativityExplorationGrowthLearningScience Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.
CuriosityExplorationMysteryScienceThe Universe I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
AdventureBiodiversityCultureExplorationNature I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.
CreativityExplorationImaginationJourneyPerspective Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
AdventureExplorationInnovationProgressScience New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
CourageExplorationPerspectiveRisk TakingSelf-awareness I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
ExplorationMotivationNational IdentityThreatWar We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.
BeautyCuriosityExplorationKnowledgeWonder Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
ExplorationInnovationPowerProgressScience Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
AdventureExplorationFulfillmentNostalgiaTravel Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
ExplorationJourneyNatureUncertainty We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
AdventureAmbitionCuriosityDiversityExploration I want to do a lot of different things and dive into different worlds.
AmbitionExplorationFuture GoalsSpace If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
AmbitionEducationExplorationLife S JourneyPlanning I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.
CreativityExplorationLearningPassionPerseverance I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.