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Explorers have to be ready to die lost. -- Russell Hoban
In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality. -- Thomas S. Monson
We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls. -- Corbin Bernsen
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out there? So, you could say that any aliens that are actually moving and interested in going somewhere are likely to be more aggressive. But who knows? -- Seth Shostak
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship. -- Tahir Shah
Old men ought to be explorers. -- T. S. Eliot
I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter. -- Robert Ballard
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers. -- Buzz Aldrin
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food -- Erma Bombeck
It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray. -- Roger von Oech
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. -- Elias Canetti
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer. -- Bjork
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe. -- Michael Harner
It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist. -- Cesar Millan
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? -- Robert Ballard
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate. -- Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. -- Lewis Pugh
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. -- Renzo Piano
I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person. -- Michael Palin
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century. -- Bertrand Piccard
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. -- Robert Falcon Scott
For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence. -- Noam Chomsky
When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth. -- Joy Harjo
When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy. -- Christian de Duve
I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders. -- Jason Mraz
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? -- Gregory Bateson
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. -- William S. Burroughs
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers. -- Carl Clinton Van Doren
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. -- Jean Batten
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. -- Alan Dean Foster
All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting. -- Joshua Foer
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists. -- Brian Greene
The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions. -- Frederick Lenz
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story. -- Adam Savage
The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer. -- Elias Canetti
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. -- Terence McKenna
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old. -- Sylvia Earle
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period. -- Illeana Douglas
We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat. -- Hampton Sides
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us. -- Joseph Campbell
I hate travelling and explorers -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. -- Richard P. Feynman
Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Men should be explorers no matter how old they are. -- Don Ameche
I like well to be in the company of explorers -- James M. Barrie
The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. -- Maria Montessori
All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey. -- Marty Rubin
The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water -- James Cameron
Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food? -- Jon Stewart
If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...? -- Michael Chabon
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. -- Lewis Pugh
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. -- Renzo Piano
Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it. -- Pema Chodron
Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country. -- Rose Wilder Lane
I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers. -- Walter Mosley
All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce. -- Keorapetse Kgositsile
As I am from HawaiÊ»i, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers. -- Nainoa Thompson
You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live. -- Daniel Quinn
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. -- Peter S. Beagle
I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history. -- Pankaj Mishra
The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. -- Peter S. Beagle
Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk. -- Ron Franscell
We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent. -- Carolyn Porco
Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership. -- Janet Gonzalez-Mena
Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers. -- Hank Wesselman
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers -- Gilbert Ryle
Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future. -- Susan Hockfield
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion. -- Terence McKenna
The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge. -- Maria Montessori
These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home. -- Carl Sagan
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go. -- John Updike
For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results. -- Carolyn Porco
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger? -- Bernard Malamud
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world. -- Ramana Maharshi

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