"We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back."
Stella Benson was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer. She was a recipient of the (A.C.) Benson Medal.
"All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority, ... but without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it."
"The gardener was one of those who are never surprised without being thunderstruck."
"Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it."
"She specialised in feminism, and in her eyes to be a woman was in itself a good argument."
"Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys."
"Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten."