History Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at…

— Bill Bryson

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked…

— Jodi Picoult

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

— Pema Chodron

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

— Steve Jobs

“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at…

— Bill Bryson

“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

Scientists, explorers, intellectuals: discoverers of the exciting existing!

— Julias Cattail

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“what motivated explorers? What inspired Magellan, battered by South America’s strange williwaw winds, to hold to his course through an unknown strait with no…

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's…

— Alfred Lansing

“the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there;…

— Italo Calvino

“Where the explorers go, conquerors and exploiters always follow.”

— James Cambias