desire for exploration Quotes

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.