Magellan Quotes

18 quotes from 10 authors

Only 18 thinkers have captured the echo of Magellan’s daring trek, reminding us how vast horizons reshape ambition. These reflections blend history, leadership, and the restless urge to push limits. Readers who love this may also appreciate the “Explorers” and “Voyage” pages.

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Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Joe Laurie Jr

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“Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.”

Laurence Bergreen

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I feel a lot like Magellan. You know - the great explorer during the Age of Exploration.

Madison Cawthorn

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So, Magellan, where are we going? (Danger) Away. I’m open to any location, so long as it doesn’t involve returning to your…

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places,…

Mary Oliver

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“The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they’re just determined to chase impossible things.…

Morgan Matson

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The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people…

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan. According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa,…

Laurence Bergreen

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“The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the…

Bill Bryson

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People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing…

Terence McKenna

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The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of…

Ferdinand Magellan

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“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are…

George Gamow

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The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid…

Ferdinand Magellan

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his…

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles…

Gary Paulsen