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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
MARK TWAIN, Innocents Abroad
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
MAYA ANGELOU, "Passports to Understanding"
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, Miss Julie
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Ulysses
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Cat's Cradle
Travel is not the time to break in new shoes.
LYNNE CHRISTEN, Travel Wisdom
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
RICHARD BACH, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
ST. AUGUSTINE, 20,000 Quips and Quotes
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
WERNER HERZOG, Minnesota Declaration
Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.
LAWRENCE DURRELL, Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader
Strong and content I travel the open road.
WALT WHITMAN, Song of the Open Road
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY, Human Nature and the Social Order
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.
GARRISON KEILLOR, "The Art of Travel," A Prairie Home Companion, Jul. 28, 2009
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they ... return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyage, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket), Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
PICO IYER, "Why We Travel"
Travel is like life in this, at least, that a congenial companion divides the troubles and doubles the joys. To please one's self is so much harder than to be pleased by another; and when it comes to doubt and difficulty, there are drawbacks to being one's own guide, philosopher, and friend.
PERCIVAL LOWELL, Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1891
If you travel, it must be to seek difference.
KATHLEEN LEE, "Into the Heart of the Middle Kingdom"
Adventurous travel is like a virus for many people ... Once they've been to some far-away destination completely on their own ... it's often as if a switch has been flipped. They've caught the travel bug, and from that moment on they are constantly thinking about their next trip.
BARRY KOOIJMANS, attributed, The Experience Economy
The traveler is active; he goes strenuoysly in search of people, of adventure, or experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN, attributed, Voyages of Discover
Travel is like the high drama of youth. It's the best and worst at the same time. One minute you are flung to the depths of despair, the next, you feel the giddy, exaggerated joy of an adolescent. For me, it had been a chance to make rash decisions, to take wild risks, to lose everything knowing I'd still have plenty of time to earn it all back.
WENDY DALE, Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON, Tremendous Trifles
Any youth who doesn't travel is like a blind person.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Letters from a Citizen of the World
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Travels with a donkey in the Cevenne
Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty. For in traveling to a truly foreign place, we inevitably travel to moods and states of mind and hidden inward passages that we'd otherwise seldom have cause to visit.
PICO IYER, "Why We Travel"
Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.
HARVEY LLOYD, Cruise Travel, Apr. 1985
Travel is an attitue, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
PAUL THEROUX, introduction, The Best American Travel Writing
Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven't seen.
MARK HERTSGAARD, Earth Odyssey
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN, The Left Hand of Darkness
Every traveler has a tale to tell.
DAVID C. SMITH & RICHARD L. TIERNEY, The Ring of Ikribu
A wise man travels to discover himself.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Fireside Travels
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