Explorers Were Quotes

#1. It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

Howard Zinn

#2. I should mention that all of the above explorers were unqualified failures. Not coincidentally, they were also all British. Americans admire success. Englishman admire heroic failure. Given a choice
at least in my reading
I'm un-American enough to take quixotry over efficiency any day.

Anne Fadiman

#3. We can be much, much more than we were taught in teachers college ... more than stern ladies at the front of the room who teach children to recite by rote. We can be, we MUST BE, learning partners, champions, observers, explorers, friends- and , for these special hurt children we need to be family

Jenny Bowen

#4. I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.

Susan Hockfield

#5. All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.

Terence McKenna

#6. The Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the newcomers.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers.

Walter Mosley

#8. An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Brian Cox

#9. The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

Ramana Maharshi

#10. 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.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#11. When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his absence. "I am perfectly satisfied with her," he wrote. "She is everything I want.

Hampton Sides

#12. Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.

Hank Wesselman

#13. Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Gilbert Ryle

#14. We are all modern day explorers of an invisible alien world.

Steven Magee

#15. I like well to be in the company of explorers

James M. Barrie

#16. In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

Gregory Bateson

#17. All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

Joshua Foer

#18. When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Joy Harjo

#19. Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

Hong Mei

#20. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world ... ?

Michael Chabon

#21. There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that's how she is stuck in my mind forever.
We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.

Pete Wentz

#22. The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

Edmund Hillary

#23. The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.

Paulo Coelho

#24. The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions.

Frederick Lenz

#25. As I am from Hawai'i, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

Nainoa Thompson

#26. We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

Corbin Bernsen

#27. The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#29. Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do-to the benefit of us all.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#30. We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

Carolyn Porco

#31. Every intelligent man saw the poverty that would follow the destruction of the beaver, but there were no chiefs to control it; all was perfect liberty and equality.

David Thompson

#32. We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

H. Bentley Glass

#33. There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

Champfleury

#34. Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

Tahir Shah

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Renzo Piano

#38. Where the explorers go, conquerors and exploiters always follow.

James L. Cambias

#39. Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership.

Janet Gonzalez-Mena

#40. All cultural explorers ... start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

Keorapetse Kgositsile

#41. The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

James Cameron

#42. Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.

James Lankford

#43. All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.

Marty Rubin

#44. Mathematics is not a careful march down a well cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.

Amir D. Aczel

#45. In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

Thomas S. Monson

#46. The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

Maria Montessori

#47. Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Edgar Mitchell

#48. 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 falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Jodi Picoult