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Famous Voyages Of Discovery Quotes

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. — Marcel Proust

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck. — Michel Serres

Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. — Tennessee Williams

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find." - Walt Whitman

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find." — Walt Whitman

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Gide

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. — Robert Ballard

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Gide

One doesn't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore. - Andre Gide

One doesn't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore. — Andre Gide

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. — Roald Amundsen

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. — Amelia Barr

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

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. — Andre Gide

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. — Sterling Hayden

Short Voyages Of Discovery Quotes

  • Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor — Seneca
  • Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. — Richard Francis Burton
  • Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. — Frank Borman
  • All the world’s great journeys begin with the first step. — Tibetan Proverbs
  • The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. — Dave Barry
  • They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries. — Unknown
  • Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. — Christopher Columbus
  • We should come home from adventures and perils and discoveries with new experiences and character. — Henry David Thoreau
  • To travel is to take a journey into yourself. — Danny Kaye

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Voyages of discovery quote Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Discovery And Travel Quotes

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. - Walt Disney

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it. — Shaun Tan

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

Voyages of discovery quote In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.
In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration. — Burt Rutan

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. — Phillip Adams

We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish. — Arthur C. Clarke

Voyages of discovery quote Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of. — Horace Walpole

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. — James A. Baldwin

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. — Walter Lippmann

The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue. — Paul Tournier

Discovery Of America Quotes

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. — Vine Deloria Jr.

FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions. — Ambrose Bierce

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety. — Thomas Paine

Voyages of discovery quote Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. — Oscar Handlin

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--? — Sayings

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. — Bobcat Goldthwait

Voyages of discovery quote Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. — Joseph Conrad

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. — Arthur Helps

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America. — Christopher Darden

Journey Of Discovery Quotes

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth. — Akiane Kramarik

Voyages of discovery quote Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union. — Harville Hendrix

Investing is a journey of self-discovery, where we learn about our own biases and emotions. — Gautam Baid

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Voyages of discovery quote People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery. — Hannah Bronfman

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you. — Melody Beattie

That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty. — Diane von Furstenberg

A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Travel And Discover Quotes

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. — Johnny Carson

I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit. — Roger Waters

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. — Ivanka Trump

Voyages of discovery quote Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life. — Judy Blume

I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

Voyages of discovery quote Friendship is a buried treasure waiting to be discovered.
Friendship is a buried treasure waiting to be discovered.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. — Wendell Berry

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs. — Wally Lamb

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Lynn Pearson

The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves. — James Hollis

Exploration And Adventure Quotes

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot

Voyages of discovery quote The greatest discovery of all is that a man can change his future by merely changing his mind and hi
The greatest discovery of all is that a man can change his future by merely changing his mind and his attitude.

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. — Edmund Hillary

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. — Isabelle Eberhardt

Voyages of discovery quote People don't take trips, trips take people.
People don't take trips, trips take people.

Do not follow where the path may lead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. — Emilio Estevez

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim. — Robert Fulghum

Sea Voyage Quotes

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. — H. P. Lovecraft

There is a tide in the affairs of men — William Shakespeare

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. - Joshua Slocum

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum

Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. — William Shakespeare

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. — Fred Hoyle

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — William Shakespeare

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. — William Wordsworth

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. — William Shakespeare

Great Journeys Quotes

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy

I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. — Harun Yahya

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss

There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey. — Lewis Howes

All that is gold does not glitter. — J. R. R. Tolkien

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey — Mike Dirnt

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. - Les Brown

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. — Les Brown

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. — Ella Maillart

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — Lao Tzu

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More Voyages Of Discovery Quotes

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? — Thomas Merton

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery. — Carl Sagan

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. — Ellen Ochoa

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. — Thomas Merton

Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery. — David Doubilet

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. — Frederick Sanger

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. — Winston Churchill

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging. — Wallace Stegner

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body. — Marcel Proust

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. — Julien Green

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. — Paul Strand

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all. — Brennan Manning

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. — Henry Miller

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise. — John Jay Chapman

If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery. — Herbert Read

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself. — Henry Miller

There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul. — Margaret Drabble

This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes. — Gideon Defoe

I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes. — Marcel Proust

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. — Gabriel Fielding

Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.) — Marcel Proust

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees. — Marcel Proust

To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was. — Mike Wallace

Writing is always a voyage of discovery. — Nadine Gordimer

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery. — Benjamin Disraeli

Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny. — Ronald Reagan

I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. — Arthur Rimbaud

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions. — Chris Lytle

For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am. — Robert Carlyle

It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. — Jacqueline Kelly

It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success. — Jacqueline Kelly

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