Quotes About Exploration

It was that he seemed...content to live in a wholly unexplored world.

At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of 2 leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahanä [San Salvador].

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals continued our course in the morning and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and] herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Misattributed: Actually by André Gide.)

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

After your Highnesses ended the war of the Moors who reigned in Europe, and finished the war of the great city of Granada, where this present year [1492] on the 2nd January I saw the royal banners of Your Highnesses planted by force of arms on the towers of the Alhambra, which is the fortress of the said city, I saw the Moorish sultan issue from the gates of the said city, and kiss the royal hands of Your Highnesses …

since 'nothing can be begun with certainty, it's better we begin with doubt'.

Pick a genre Pick a word count Decide on the number of characters in your story Select a theme Give yourself a deadline for completing the story

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

Second hand bookshops are best visited alone and in the rain.

he always stressed that 'one could go down from floor to floor far below street level and find … yellow warrens'. A literally underground culture, already a journalistic cliché.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and...

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

No matter how deep we have gone, there is more.

I wanted to escape my head because my head is so stupid these days. I wanted to be inside someone else's head.

Wohin ich dich auch führen werde, es wird das Leben sein.

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

On we went over low-lying passes till we came to the source of the Brahmaputra, which the Tibetans call the Tsangpo.