Explorers Quotes

• In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Psychics, Space

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.272, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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• 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

  Knowing, Faces, Ifs

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Atheist, Ignorance, Humility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life, Adventure, Responsibility

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2012). “Honey in Your Heart: Ways to See and Savor the Simple Good Things”, p.16, Conari Press

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• Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

  Robert Ballard

  Doors, Live Your Life, Quiet

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• It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

  Roger von Oech

  Important, Exploration, Willing

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• 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 happiness than the quest.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Happiness, Appreciation, Quests

  "The City and the Stars". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, June 1956.

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• If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.

  John Perry Barlow

  Lost, Lost You, Ifs

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• Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?

  Michael Chabon

  Art, Children, Adventure

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• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  Daniel Boone

  Inspirational, Confused, Confusion

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• Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Companion, Uncertainty

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

  Cesar Millan

  Goal, Humans, Up And Down

  "Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time". Interview with Jeff Witzeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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

  Paul Strand

  Thinking, Discovery, Long

  Catherine Duncan, Paul Strand, Aperture Foundation (1994). “Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait”

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• I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Storyteller

  " ‘The Act of Killing’ Director on Dreams, Recognition and Impact" by Joshua Oppenheimer, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2014.

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• With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Breathing

  "My wish: Protect our oceans". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• The explorer is the person who is lost.

  Tim Cahill

  Lost, Mathematical, Persons

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Life, Light, Discovery

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.114, Oxford University Press

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• You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

  Isak Dinesen

  Travel, Adventure, Alive

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• Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Life, Travel, Contentment

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• Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, Games, Fields

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

  Mike Horn

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Unattainable

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• The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

  Elias Canetti

  Self, Want, Self Knowledge

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• 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

  Done, May, March

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.416, Oxford University Press

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