Great Explorers Quotes

#1. As Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, "It matters not where or how far you travel - the farther commonly the worse - but how much alive you are." Two

Pico Iyer

#2. We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Mignon McLaughlin

#3. Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#4. 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

#5. Women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

Ellen Glasgow

#6. And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

Gavin Douglas

#7. Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, then the lesson afterward.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#8. 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

#9. I really write for people.

John Eaton

#10. The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

Wayne Dyer

#11. The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.

Al Kooper

#12. Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

Anne Frank

#13. I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

Jason Mraz

#14. I was like little-miss wannabe punk-rocker; I would go home and secretly listen to Pink, and dance around, like, 'Ugh, she understands me so well!'

Emily Meade

#15. 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

#16. 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