Curiosity Quote by Herodotus

From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived…

— John Goddard

I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed…

— Michael Palin

I wanted to go into exploration. I've always been an explorer in my youth.

— Wally Funk

“Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a society.…

— David Grann

Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and…

— Rebecca Solnit

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not…

— Arthur Hailey

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the…

— Pankaj Mishra

I moved to Europe and was able to take time and really explore who I was and who I wanted to be. I needed…

— Mischa Barton

“Every explorer I have met has been driven—not coincidentally but quintessentially—by curiosity, by a single-minded, insatiable, and even jubilant need to know.”

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“Finally, consider your predicament a privilege in a world so shrunken that certain people refer to it as the 'global village.' The term 'explorer'…

— Tim Cahill

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

— Paul Strand

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient,…

— Scott Anderson