George Leigh Mallory Quotes

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

Traveling is my form of self-education.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

no knowledge obtained without risk

I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread.