Quotes about Exploration

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?

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

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

This route will serve to certify that no other sources of the Nile can come from the south without being seen by me. No one will cut me out after this exploration is accomplished; and may the good Lord of all help me to show myself one of His stout-hearted servants, an honour to my children, and, perhaps, to my country and race.