Echoes

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

He who lives sees much. He who travels sees more.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

The world will hardly admit of an excuse for a man leaving a coast unexplored he has once discovered.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease.

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: what is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

The sun is new each day.

Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once. But can you really forbid a man from harboring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?