Explorers Quotes - Page 5

• Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

  Paula White

  Retirement, Inspirational Life, Opportunity

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• I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.

  Brian Blessed

  Men, Serious, Three

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• Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

  Robert Fulghum

  Tourists, Fields, Unending

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

  William Klein

  Photography, Zero, Believe

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• Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.

  Robin Sharma

  Destiny, Sight, Enlightenment

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• Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience.

  Seth Shostak

  Jail, World, Royal

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• Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

  George Schaller

  Intellectual, Mountain, Desert

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• Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite.

  Germaine Greer

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Giving Up, Mean, Eye

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2012

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• He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Twilight, Honor

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• And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her

  Meg Cabot

  Kids, Mind, Watches

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Crowning Glory”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.

  Tom Cole

  Men, White Man, Two

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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

  Pankaj Mishra

  People, Used, Himalayas

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew, but weren't entirely aware of. It's very liberating for a writer to go into a space where she or he has not gone before, because, instead of being a tourist, you're like an explorer now, and you're sort of lost in this new idea.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Ideas, Space

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Land, Steps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.561, Harvard University Press

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• The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adventure, Sacrifice, Men

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• Believers do not surrender. They can continue on their way to the truth because they are certain that God has created them "explorers", whose mission is to leave no stone unturned, though the temptation to doubt is always there. Leaning on God, they continue to reach out, always and everywhere, for all that is beautiful, good, and true.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• 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 by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Science, Artist

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.13, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I hate travelling and explorers

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Hate, I Hate

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.24, Penguin

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• 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 has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Thinking, Land, Names

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

  Renzo Piano

  Dream, Architect, Wells

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• 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 simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget.

  Luca Parmitano

  Technology, Simple, Skills

  "Astronaut recounts his near-drowning on spacewalk". www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2013.

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• 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. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Ideas

  William Walker Atkinson (2016). “Practicing mental influence”, p.40, William Walker Atkinson

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• 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 remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Moon, Years

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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