yearning for discovery Quotes

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

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.

Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got very far, but they were always having to come and fetch me. Once when I was about six, my father came to get me somewhere I'd gone, and he told me later he'd asked me, "Why are you so restless? Why can't you stay here with us?" and I said to him, "I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

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

And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go?

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

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.

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.