Roald Amundsen Quotes

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

One must travel, to learn.

It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

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.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.