“Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows,… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again.… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
People say, oh we just need charismatic leaders to continue on to Mars. Now we've gone to the moon, of course Mars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity.… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“the Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast—the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“My father's a frustrated explorer, so I'm on a first-name basis with a lot of dead men." "Yes, there's a whole generation… — Ashley Shelby Copy Share Image
There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Believers do not surrender. They can continue on their way to the truth because they are certain that God has created them… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
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