Quotes about Exploration
So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.
- Glenn Beck
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.
- Gordon Hinckley
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
- Henry David Thoreau
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
- Edmund Hillary
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
- Khalil Gibran
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
- Hippocrates