Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Work

The Hemingway Collection

This collection brings together a selection of Hemingway's most celebrated short stories, novels, and personal correspondence, showcasing his distinctive style and profound impact on American literature. more

Author

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

American author known for his concise and forceful writing style, as well as his profound insights into life. Hemingway's works cover a wide range of themes including war, adventure, and love, with notable titles such as 'The Old Man and the Sea' and 'A Farewell to Arms'. more

You May Also Like

“I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.”

MenWellsEnoughScienceLeftAdventureExperimentsWiser
Book:Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs: 70+ Adventure Classics & Science Fiction Novels (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Chronicles, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Moon Trilogy, The Venus Series, Westerns, Lost World Novels, Fantasy Classics, Historical Novels and more
Create image

“In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”

PeopleLifeYearsStillsTodayMovingScienceEnergyWaterBehindsPowerSunTakenPiecesOur LivesGenerationsExampleAdventureExcitingCuriosityOilMuseumsDedicatedEfficientDependenceSmall PartsForeign OilRoad Not TakenExciting Adventures
Author:Jimmy Carter
Create image

“It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.”

MenFeelsFirstsMomentsScienceCertainHeavenEmotionMorningSawsImpossibleStudentsEmotionalAdventureBedOceanDiscoveryMethodLaysWesternInventionGrantedAbstractRegionsStringsShoreSparksElectricHistoricGeometryPacificFranklinTelescopesColumbusKitesPacific Ocean
Author:Alfred North Whitehead
Create image

“Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.”

MenMeanMadeSciencePoliticalUniverseHeavenFeltSpaceKnowledgeSeaAdventureDiscoveryTreasurePermanentExplorationBuriedSpheresProvisionAdventurousLureNew DiscoveriesUnchartedBuried Treasure
Author:George Ellery Hale
Create image

“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.”

IfsNeedsIdeasDoneAgeScienceDiesTurnsStrongSuccessfulMiddleAdventureComfortableSettlingVitalityMiddle AgesSettling DownCustodiansSenile
Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
Create image

“Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.”

MenWellsMadeProblemSpiritForceInterestKnownRiskSecurityDangerAdventureOughtMoonSafeComfortableDrivenCertaintyReasonableUrgesFedsToilUnreasonableAmusedCertainty Of Death
Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…
Create image