Exploring the Unknown Quotes

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

If you don't go, you'll never know.

Learn to love the questions themselves.

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.

Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is yourself left over from yesterday. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

Right after college, a buddy of mine was moving to Boulder for some summer program, and he was like, 'Come live with me.' And I figured, why not? I love Colorado.

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.