Bold Exploration Quotes

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

Those who first cross the Atlantic in a steam-boat will be entitled to a great portion of applause. In a few years we expect such trips will be common ... and bold will they be who first make a passage to Europe in a steam-boat.

The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Once more on my adventure brave and new.

I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

My approach is just fearless. I'm not afraid to try anything.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

I like well to be in the company of explorers

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.