“Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

As quoted in "The Chemistry of Life" by Ralph Whiteside Kerr in Rosicrucian Digest (1947), p. 131.
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Context: Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before, and something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.

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scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone 1847–1922

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“Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to see something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore around it, and before you know it, something worth thinking about to occupy your mind.”

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

A Treasury of Inspirational Thoughts (2004) by S.P. Sharma, p. 41.
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“Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will find something you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore around it, and before you know it, you will have something to think about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.”

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

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“Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.”

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

Quoted in Design of Devices and Systems (1998) by William H. Middendorf, p. 177.
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“Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.”

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“What I want, I think, is the sentimental, but the sentimental reached by no easy beaten track”

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“I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”

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“No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.”

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“Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.”

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