Maxine Greene Quotes

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.

We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

I just want pieces of the world.

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.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

I don't know what's on the other side.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.