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To explore is to search and discover

• Explore: Travel through (an unfamiliar area) in order to learn about it.  Oxford Dictionary
• Explore: To search and discover (about something).  Cambridge Dictionary
• Explore: To look into closely; scrutinize; examine.  Dictionary.com
• Explore: To look at (something) in a careful way to learn more about it : to study or analyze (something).  Merriam Webster
• Explore: To learn about (something) by trying it.  Merriam Webster
• Curiosity,  Discovery,  Learning,   Travel,  Explore new approaches,  Explore new ideas

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To explore is to be a student of life; a constant learner

• The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty- five, but throughout life. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• The most successful people are lifelong learners; they constantly ask questions and never cease to explore the wonder- filled world around them. Regardless of where you are in life—whether you are fifteen or a hundred and fifteen, whether you are going through a rough patch or are thriving—create an education program for yourself. Tal Ben-Shahar
• Read articles and books and speak to people with entirely different points of view from our own. We form opinions, then spend our whole lives validating what we believe to be true. There so much we can learn and explore. Richard Carlson
• In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it. John Archibald Wheeler
• The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more. Alexander Pope
• While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching – but good teaching and by good teachers – a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself. Nicholas Negroponte
• Train yourselves. Don’t wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school. Irving Langmuir
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To explore is to open up possibility

• That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. Leonard Nimoy
• In all creative processes we are pushing the boundaries of what we know now, to explore new possibilities; we are drawing on the skills we have now, often stretching and evolving them as the work demands. Sir Ken Robinson
• There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities. Ray Charles
• We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. Margaret J. Wheatley
• The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable. Julian Huxley
• Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, and to truly see that impossible is just a word. Richard Branson
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To explore is at the heart of creativity and innovation

• In all creative processes we are pushing the boundaries of what we know now, to explore new possibilities; we are drawing on the skills we have now, often stretching and evolving them as the work demands. Sir Ken Robinson
• Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal. Russel Ackoff
• To be creative, be an explorer and search for ideas outside your area. Looking for good ideas is like prospecting for gold.  If you look in the same old places, you’ll find tapped out veins.  Roger von Oech
• Anyone can look for history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store. Robert Wieder
• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let’s all go exploring. Edith Widder
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To explore is to open up knowledge

• The ancient saying, “There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses,” and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge. Maria Montessori
• Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore. Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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To explore is to rekindle your youth

• The real secret to de-aging our lives is to stress less and enjoy more. Rekindle the spirit of your youth. Regain your sense of wonder in all things. Laugh, explore, and play every chance you get! Che Garman
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To explore is to free yourself from the prison of your current view

• Be an explorer…read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play…do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world. Charles Thompson
• We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time. S. Eliot
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To explore is at the heart of being human

• Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. Frank Borman
• Exploration is innate to mankind, and its highest levels lead to spiritual inquiry. This brings up the questions of who am I, what am I, where did I come from, what is the origin and destiny of the self, and who and where is God. David Hwkins
• The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. John Steinbeck
• Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy. Margaret Mead
• Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what’s beyond. Buzz Aldrin
• Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn’t been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do-to the benefit of us all. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings. Terence McKenna

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Therefore, throw off your bowlines and go on voyages of discovery

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. André Gide
• We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better. JoyBell C.
• Make voyages! Attempt them…there’s nothing else. Tennessee Williams
• The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it. John Archibald Wheeler
• We shall not cease from exploration T. S. Eliot
• The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. Pema Chodron

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Explore like you’re a child again

• And if we observe humans who are two years old, we find that most of the time these humans have a big smile on their face and they’re having fun. They are exploring the world. They are not afraid to play. Don Miguel Ruiz
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Explore and then share your discoveries

• Go exploring. Explore ideas, places, and opinions. The inside of the echo chamber is where all the boring people hang out.  Then share what you discover.  And be generous when you do. Not everybody went exploring with you. Let them live vicariously through your adventures.  Jessica Hagy

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Explore the world around you

• It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath out feet. Martin Dansky
• The most successful people are lifelong learners; they constantly ask questions and never cease to explore the wonder- filled world around them. Regardless of where you are in life—whether you are fifteen or a hundred and fifteen, whether you are going through a rough patch or are thriving—create an education program for yourself. Tal Ben-Shahar
• Nobody owns the world. So feel free to explore it. A. Cabaltica
• I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. Paulo Coelho
• We might as well give in to the tug of our spirits to explore this confounding and wondrous world. We might as well greet each other as endless pilgrims and bid each other well on our way. Because we’re already on the road… Anthony Lawlor

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Explore the universe

• In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. Carl Sagan
• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. Edwin Hubble
• Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. Humphry Davy
• Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. John Fitzgerald
• We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose. Diana Robinson
• We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery. Carl Sagan
• It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us. Carl Sagan
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Explore wilderness and nature

• We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. Henry David Thoreau
• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. John Hope Franklin
• You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer. John Muir
• When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored planet. E. O. Wilson
• The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found under the leaves. It whispers the dreams of the tall fir trees. It does pipe the gentle song the forest sings on gray days. I hear all the voices calling me. I listen. But I cannot go. Opal Whiteley
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Explore the oceans

• We tend to think of America’s days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that’s because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet. David Helvarg
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Explore life and what it means to be alive …

• To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am. Dawna Markova
• I am here to live, to love, to give, to grow, to serve, to explore life, and explore my soul within. I am not here to be who society expects me to be. My thoughts are my own and I am proud to live in the skin of my very own authentic self. I am proud to be me. Melanie Moushigian
• Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. Simon Raven
• If life’s journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. Rabindranath Tagore
• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt
• I want to know why I’m alive. I want to understand. It’s like exploration; it’s like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching – it’s a passion. Juliette Binoche
• Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life. Bertrand Piccard
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… even if it means failing or making mistakes

• After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
• But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration – because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks…. James Cameron
• Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That’s a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• One of the hallmarks of the team is this sense of looking to be wrong. It’s the inquisitiveness, and sense of exploration. It’s about being excited to be wrong, because then you’ve discovered something new. Jonathan Ive
• Progress is the exploration of our own error. Jacob Bronowski
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… for failure is a natural part of the process of exploring your world

• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure – all your life. John W. Gardner
• Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on. Tom Greening

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Explore the intimate, little moments

• I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. Rita Dove
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Explore the previously unexplored to discover new lands

• Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. Alan Alda
• Genius of any kind is the ability and willingness to leave the known world behind and explore new territory. Karla Mclaren
• A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life; When he has the daring to open doors to new experiences and to step boldly forth to explore strange horizons. Wilfred A. Peterson
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. André Gide
• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. John Hope Franklin
• I long to set foot where no man has trod before. Charles Darwin

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Explore what you don’t know

• To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near, and to record in details with the eyes of a child, any beauty, horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Dan Eldo
• Explore the unknown. Be open to new experiences. Wayne Dyer
• Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown but allowing one’s brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable. Dean Radin
• Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting. Dale Dauten
• Creative exploration is impossible, without humble acknowledgement of the unknown. Jordan Peterson

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Explore the roads less travelled

• The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. Robert Brault
• Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought. Alexander Graham Bell
• You can accelerate your development by giving yourself a fresh set of challenges, or the same set viewed from a different angle, every day. Explore a different path – if it’s a dead end, explore another. Paul Foxton
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Explore the familiar as if you’re seeing it for the first time

• How do you lift the veils of illusion? You start by asking your Higher Self to lift them and being willing to see what is revealed. Question things you have taken for granted. Explore new areas. Imagine you are a small child or that you have just arrived on the planet and are examining things for the first time. Orin
• We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time. S. Eliot
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Explore new ideas

• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. Terence McKenna
• We need – and should encourage and honour – not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. Walter Moberly
• To be creative, be an explorer and search for ideas outside your area. Looking for good ideas is like prospecting for gold.  If you look in the same old places, you’ll find tapped out veins.  Roger von Oech
• Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. Lisa Randall
• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something – live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete… Awaken your creative sensitivities! Jack Palance
• A useful technique of generating ideas is to list the assumptions of the problem, and then explore what happens as you drop each of these assumptions individually or in combination. Charles Cave
• Be an explorer and search for ideas outside your area. Looking for good ideas is like prospecting for gold.  If you look in the same old places, you’ll find tapped out veins.  Roger von Oech
• Be an explorer. Actively seek out new ideas. There are new worlds, options, products, friends, methods and ideas waiting to be discovered. Venture off the beaten path. John Kehoe
• An idea, like a ghost must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Charles Dickens
• Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas. Wilferd Peterson
• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Charles Dickens
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Explore possibilities and options

• We must learn to explore all of the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome rather than fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable things,’ because when things become ‘unthinkable,’ thinking stops and actions become mindless.  William Fulbright
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Explore what it is to be truly yourself

• Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity. Anthon St. Maarten
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Explore literature and language

• We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing. Ellen Gilcrist
• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. Salman Rushdie
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Explore love and sexuality

• The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings. Mahatma Gandhi
• I’m constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it’s romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that. Madonna
• Sex-ed courses look at girl’s internal parts: for boys it’s about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it’s periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge. Peggy Orenstein
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Most of all, become a self-explorer and discover yourself

• We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose. Diana Robinson
• The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer. Elias Canetti
• Self-exploration takes time, effort and focus. It can be some of the scariest and yet most rewarding work we ever do.  Ryan Howes, Ph.D
• Can you imagine experiencing the world as a great sandbox given for us to play in like we did as children? As we play, we can also open ourselves to the exploration of our edges, always creating new adventures of self- exploration as we let go of old out- dated beliefs about ourselves. Judith- Annette Milburn
• But what about when people explore their inner selves? Make journeys of self-discovery?  Aren’t they going within to find the truth?  They’re just exploring the ego, making a study of the false self, which is a life quest as valid as any other.  But you don’t wake up by perfecting your dream character, you wake up by breaking free of it.  There’s no truth to the ego, so no degree of mastery over it results in anything true.  Putting attention on the false self merely reinforces it.   Jed McKenna
• Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Henry David Thoreau
• The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we’re exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It’s not physical – it’s all in the head. Lewis Gordon
• The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man. Yip Harburg
• The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring. Evan Williams
• An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness. David Corbett
• The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start? Ruben Papian
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Explore your fears

• Think of yourself as an explorer going into new territory. Mentally put on your headlamp and bring your attention into the fear. Forget about what you think it may be like and be curious about what it is actually like. What triggers it? What sensations do you feel in your body? What thoughts appear in your mind? What urges do you have? Study your fear without acting on it so it becomes a known quantity to you. Leo Babauta
• Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self- knowledge if we explore them. Marilyn Ferguson
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Explore your beliefs

• I have taken time to explore my beliefs to be certain they are of my own choice, rather than what others think I should believe. Brad Swift
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Explore both your heart and mind

• The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men. Allen E. Claxton
• The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. Julien Green
• Before man can explore outer space, he should first learn to explore the Inner Space of his mind. Merlin Fraser
• This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. John Steinbeck
• The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. Henri Bergson
• For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I’m always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what’s right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise. Anne Bancroft
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Explore your potential and your outer limits

• The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. Brian Tracy
• Of course, we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. A.E. Hotchner
• Man is not born perfect. He is born as a process. He has to seek and search and explore. He has to become, because his being arises only through becoming. Becoming is his being. He can only be if he is on the move. Evolution is intrinsic to man’s nature, evolution is his very soul. Osho
• You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you. Abraham Verghese
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot
• No one knows what he can do till he tries. Publilius Syrus
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Explore your feelings and emotions

• How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. Claude Debussy
• As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas – the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action. Audre Lorde
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Explore your shadow and shame

• Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. Brené Brown
• As painful as shame is, it does seem to be the guardian of many of the secret, unexplored aspects of our beings. Repressed shame must be experienced if we are to come to terms with the good, the bad, and the unique of what we are. Robert Karen
• I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. Tori Amos
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Explore your very soul …

• Remember that imagination is the faculty of the soul and that when it suggests new pathways to us we are being invited to explore the territory of the soul in ways that will certainly change and re enchant us. Caitlin Matthews
• LIfe is sacred. Life is art.  Life is sacred art.  The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego.  The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being.  It is up to each of us to celebrate and actualize our being, and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art.  Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full, authentic self-exploration.  The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.  Gabrielle Roth
• I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. Tori Amos
• Though the soul is not a thing, it is our beingness, that which gives us being. So its presence and absence are visible.  Its presence manifests in being awake, attentive, energetic, alive.  It is the spark of life.  It is absent or dampened when we lack vitality, elan, energy.  It is the true self we are seeking in all our explorations, and yet it is not somewhere “out there” but right here now, underneath the false roles we’re always casting ourselves in. Gabrielle Roth
• The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results. Mike Svob
• How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness. Daisaku Ikeda
• As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are. K.S. Iyengar
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… by exploring deep within

• Before man can explore outer space, he should first learn to explore the Inner Space of his mind. Merlin Fraser

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Explore by experimenting

• Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect less. Santosh Kalwar
• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Where is the “unexplored land” but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place–London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard–is “unexplored land,” to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places. Henry David Thoreau
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Explore by reading

• Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. Stephen King
• Congratulations on the new library, because it isn’t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you — and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life. Isaac Asimov
• Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told. Dean Koontz
• Literature is man’s exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want. David Daiches
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Explore by experiencing …

• In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams
• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. Ralph W. Sockman
• Begin with a desire to explore and experience something new. This is a bit different than the advice to do what you love. How do you know you’ll love something if you’ve never done it before? Steve Pavlina
• Explore the unknown. Be open to new experiences. Wayne Dyer
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… and thereby open yourself up to adventure

• A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life; When he has the daring to open doors to new experiences and to step boldly forth to explore strange horizons. Wilfred A. Peterson
• Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? Richard Aldington
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Explore by opening yourself up to your innate curiosity

• My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift . . . if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. Carl Sagan
• There’s really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward – opening up new doors and doing new things – because we’re curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We’re always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering – the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how. Walt Disney
• Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years. Walter Reisch
• The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day. Diane Ackerman
• I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life. Jules Verne
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Explore through the power of thought

• Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought… Robert Green Ingersoll
• My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination – no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It’s the way I feel about dancing – you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time. Robert Fulghum
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Explore through the power of imagination

• All worry is your imagination. Why not use your imagination to explore happier options? Marta Davidovich Ockuly
• Remember that imagination is the faculty of the soul and that when it suggests new pathways to us we are being invited to explore the territory of the soul in ways that will certainly change and re enchant us. Caitlin Matthews
• Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery. William Jevons
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Explore through play

• Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration. Greg McKeown
• To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration. Rachel Pollack
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Explore through writing

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. L. Doctorow
• I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. Joss Whedon
• At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It’s about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves. Michael Straczynski
• “Meaning is not thought up and then written down. The act of writing is an act of thought. All writing is experimental in the beginning. It is an attempt to solve a problem, to find a meaning, to discover its own way towards a meaning. Donald Murray
• Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me. Karen Traviss
• Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. Nadine Gordimer
• You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you’re not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve. Sabrina Jeffries
• I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made. Virginia Hamilton
• In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs
• I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art. David Foster Wallace
• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing. E. L. Doctorow
• For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I’m surprised where the journey takes me. Jack Dann
• All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? Steven Saylor
• Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it’s not science, it’s an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers. Tim O’Brien
• What’s so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy. Andre Dubus
• Pico Iyer describes his writing as “intimate letters to a stranger,” and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration. Terry Tempest Williams
• My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge. Alan Lightman
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Explore through poetry

• Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem. Diane Glancy

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Explore through spirituality

• Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves. Jean Smith
• While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. Pema Chodron
• You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. Alan Watts
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Explore through yoga

• Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life. Jaggi Vasudev
• Yoga is not just repetition of few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life. Amit Ray
• Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind. K.S. Iyengar
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Explore through Science

• The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That’s why science is exciting–because we don’t know. Science is all about things we don’t understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it’s not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That’s how it makes progress. Freeman Dyson
• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. Edwin Powell Hubble
• The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. Freeman Dyson
• Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. Robert Aris Willmott
• Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Vannevar Bush
• Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability. Ashley Montagu
• Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world. Barbara Fredrickson
• The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman. Isidor Isaac Rabi
• The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration. Heinz Pagels
• Exploration is the sport of the scientist. Auguste Piccard
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Explore through art

• An artist has to be a little like Lewis and Clark, always exploring in new, uncharted directions. C W Mundy
• All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business. Robert Flaherty
• An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint. Henri Matisse
• Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating – exploring, discovering, and experimenting — that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children’s skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar. MaryAnn F. Kohl
• The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. Andy Goldsworthy
• My work is not repetition. It is an exploration. Guido Molinari
• Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand? John Cassavetes
• Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul. El Greco
• Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. Michael Chabon
• Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. Robert Aris Willmott
• In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. Susanne Katherina Langer
• It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of his explorations. The measure of his talent–of his genius, if you will–is the richness he finds in such a life’s voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which he is able to embody it through his chosen medium. Paul Strand
• My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it. George Brecht
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Explore through conversation

• A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos. Edward De Bono
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Explore through acting

• Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul. Annette Bening
• Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people’s lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions. Nicole Kidman
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Explore by nurturing a beginner’s mind

• The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step. Julia Cameron
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Explore by being willing to get lost and go astray

• It’s important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray. Roger von Oech
• Not all who wander are lost. J R R Tolkien
• I’m not lost. I’m exploring. Jana Stanfield
• Lost is just another word for exploring. Sandy Gingras
• Getting lost is just another way of saying ‘going exploring. Justina Chen
• There is little difference in being lost and exploring. Dan Eldon
• Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkein
• Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost. Laini Taylor

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Encourage children to explore

• I’m more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. Seymour Simon
• If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown, give him support. Osho
• If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him. John W. Holt, Jr.

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Exploring space

• Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare’s plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters… C. S. Lewis
• By exploring other worlds, we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history. Carl Sagan
• In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history. Carl Sagan
• We’d never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn’t been for space exploration and NASA. James Lovelock
• Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy! Craig Reucassel
• But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? John F. Kennedy
• And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds. William Winwood Reade
• A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program. William Shatner
• A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. Carl Sagan
• Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars. Carl Sagan
• When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. Chuck Palahniuk
• Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We’ve got to be willing to take it. Gene Cernan
• We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth. Sara Seager
• The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone. Arthur C. Clarke

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• I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food. Erma Bombeck
• I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls…I want to live, Marge! Won’t you let me live? Homer Simpson
• I’ve explored and rejected every other possibility. Life after all must be for having fun. Ashleigh Brilliant
• I think we explored the further reaches of “for better or for worse. ”  Mary Archer
• I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there’s a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about. Tibor Fischer
• Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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