Top Explorers Quotes

Although his log entries do not speak of America per se, a chart created by Admiral Zheng was used to make a detailed map of the world. A copy of this map, drawn in 1763, was found in a second-hand bo...

I have seen travel plans happen only when they were made overnight.

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

My broad conclusion is that an advanced global seafaring civilization existed during the Ice Age, that it mapped the earth as it looked then with stunning accuracy, and that it had solved the problem...

All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.

Look at Columbus, or Magellan: looking back, historians call you an explorer, but at the time, you‘re just lost.

Setting sail from Tidore, his next port of call was the island of Celebes, where he found himself royally entertained by the King of Butung.... This island unknown to the English but Middleton (Captai...

Every experience has a pattern and sometimes it teaches us through the spirit of patience captured, that there are no coincidences in life.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of the East India Company. 'I cannot tell where you should looke for me.' he wrote...

Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject's extraordinary curiosity as follows: '1)...

The Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in th...