Quotes About Exploration

We saw what a train of Indian Sepoys, Johanna men, Nassick boys, and Shupanga canoemen, accompanied Dr. Livingstone when he started from Zanzibar in 1866 to enter upon his last discoveries: of all these, five only could answer to the roll-call as they handed over the dead body of their leader to his countrymen on the shore whither they had returned, and this after eight years' desperate service.

11th March, 1871.—I had a long, fierce oration from Amur, in which I was told again and again that I should be killed and eaten—the people wanted a "white one" to eat! I needed 200 guns; and "must not go to die." I told him that I was thankful for advice, if given by one who had knowledge, but his vehement threats were dreams of one who had never gone anywhere, but sent his slaves to kill people. He was only frightening my people, and doing me an injury.

The central Lualaba I would fain call the Lake River Webb; the western, the Lake River Young. The Lufira and Lualaba West form a Lake, the native name of which, "Chibungo," must give way to Lake Lincoln. I wish to name the fountain of the Liambai or Upper Zambesi, Palmerston Fountain, and adding that of Sir Bartle Frere to the fountain of Lufira, three names of men who have done more to abolish slavery and the slave-trade than any of their contemporaries.

David Livingstone

To not risk is to not learn. Or to state this more positively; risk taking can make one open to learning and can ensure that this learning is retained.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's always the hope that we'll find it abroad

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

Online pornography allows individuals to explore creative sexual possibilities they never knew existed but also creates entirely unrealistic expectations for real life sexual interactions.

One frequently hears that there are not enough places for people to go. But where do we not go? We are too many and tread too heavily. (Perhaps the world is to blame for being too small.)

Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power and sex.

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

Always to be pushing out like this, beyond what I know cannot be the limits - what else should a man's life be?

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!

The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.