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

  Daniel Boone

  Inspirational, Confused, Confusion

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

  John Perry Barlow

  Lost, Lost You, Ifs

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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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• Old men ought to be explorers.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Old Man, Ought

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

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

  Corbin Bernsen

  Space, Soul, Needs

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

  Thomas S. Monson

  Reality, Mortality, Traveler

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

  Robert Ballard

  Underwater, Hunters, Treasure

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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 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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• 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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