Knut Hamsun Quotes

A path is made by walking on it.

By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

We make the path by walking.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Anyone can follow a path, but only a leader can blaze one.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

I try to do what has never been done before.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

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

Follow no path. Make your own.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man's Land.

Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.