bancroft Quotes

“So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.”

“Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.”

“A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.”

“This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.”

“Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.”

“The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.”

“I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.”