About This Quote
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. The quote is often cited as an example of how explorers must leave their friends and loved ones to go on the voyage. Explorers risk much by venturing into unknown waters, but they know that if they do not risk, they will never gain anything.
Some Similar Quotes
- To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
- Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
- Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a...
- The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.