Explorers Quotes - Page 2

• God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.

  David Livingstone

  God, Religious, Heart

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• The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Knowing

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2017

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• I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.

  Henry Hudson

  Travel, Adventure, Land

  "Henry Hudson the Navigator: The Original Documents in which His Career is Recorded, Collected, Partly Translated, and Annotated".

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• The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

  Robert Ballard

  Educational, Discovery, Exploration

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Business

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• Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

  John Smith

  Success, Sports, Regret

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• To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.

  Roberta Bondar

  Life, Change, Attitude

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• The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.

  Ilan Ramon

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• Old men ought to be explorers.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Old Man, Ought

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• 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

  Adventure, Land, Risk

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Travel, Growing Up, Reading

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cities, Firsts, Literature

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.27, BookBaby

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• I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

  Michael Palin

  Stupid, Silly, Wanted

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• But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

  Gregory Bateson

  Heart, Knowing, Answers

  Gregory Bateson, Carol Wilder-Mott, John H. Weakland, International Communication Association, Speech Communication Association (1981). “Rigor & imagination: essays from the legacy of Gregory Bateson”, Praeger Publishers

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• I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

  Bjork

  Singers, Scientist, Singer-songwriters

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Jealousy, Credit, Accepting

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• I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

  Illeana Douglas

  Cowboy, Vintage, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Corbin Bernsen

  Space, Soul, Needs

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

  Thomas S. Monson

  Reality, Mortality, Traveler

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• These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Land, Earth

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.

  Michael Palin

  Strong, Adventure, Years

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• The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

  Elias Canetti

  Honesty, Knowledge, Acceptance

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• I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

  Robert Ballard

  Underwater, Hunters, Treasure

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• To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Exploration, Plans

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.13, Harper Collins

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