Adventure Quote by Francis Parkman

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.…

— Walter Isaacson

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative.…

— Robert Briffault

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness,…

— Albert Einstein

“War unhinges society, disturbs its peaceful and regular industry, and scatters poisonous seeds of disease and immorality, which continue to germinate and diffuse their…

— Henry Clay

“A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their…

— George Eliot

“Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by…

— Felix J Palma

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against…

— Samuel Smiles

We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the…

— Pablo Picasso

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted…

— Elizabeth Gaskell