Voltaire Quotes

To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

The new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

It's a brave new world.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

I remember my first night in L.A. I was sitting outside, looking out at the city and thinking, 'I don't know anyone.' I just approached it as a big adventure. I still think of it that way.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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