Unknown Territory Quotes

The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends.

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

There is so much left of it to explore.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?

There's so much to explore! And personally, I don't know. It's such a crapshoot.

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

Politics is an unknown territory, which I will never venture.

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.

If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you can't see, only imagine. You know America is there, and you can imagine it being there. But you're also looking into infinity, because you can see nothing.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be just to keep moving.