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  • Writing is always a voyage of discovery. -- Nadine Gordimer
  • Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. -- Henry Miller
  • To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. -- Phillip Adams
  • Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery. -- David Doubilet
  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
  • I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. -- Paul Strand
  • The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. -- Marcel Proust
  • The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. -- Joseph Jacobs
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