Richard Paul Evans Quotes

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

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

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

For we Americans, we are restless, the restless of all nations. None but the restless has ever come to America.

Every step forward in this nation has been directly due to or is closely allied with that wonderful faculty for delving into untried fields particular to Americans.

You'll find the future wherever people are having the most fun.