Explorers Quotes

131 quotes by 122 authors

Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are… — Clare Boylan
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and… — Benjamin Moser
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano
A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer.… — William Walker Atkinson
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe. — Michael Harner
Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear… — Luca Parmitano
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater… — Arthur C. Clarke
No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who… — Malcolm Lowry
I hate travelling and explorers — Claude Levi-Strauss
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives… — Peter Medawar
These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the… — Carl Sagan
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. . . . As… — Helen Keller
For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a… — Carolyn Porco
We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of… — Carolyn Porco
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. — Robert Falcon Scott
Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the… — Lewis Gordon
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within.… — Ramana Maharshi
It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray. — Roger von Oech
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… — Heinz Pagels
So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldnâ€™t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered.… — Ransom Riggs

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