Quotes of Exploring - somelinesforyou

“ Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds. ”

- Sandra Scarr

“ We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ 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

“ I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night. ”

- Margery Cuyler

“ 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

“ Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. ”

- Walter Benjamin

“ I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on. ”

- Tom Hobson

“ We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ”

- T.S. Eliott

“ 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

“ Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents — discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness… ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk — the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set… ”

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“ Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive. ”

- Robertson Davies
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