TRAVEL QUOTES VI

quotations about travel


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Travel is like a game; there is always gain or loss, and mostly from the unexpected side; you receive more or less than you hope for; you can, with impunity, loiter along for a while, then you are again obliged to gather yourself up a moment. For natures like mine, that like to establish themselves firmly and hold fast to things, a journey is invaluable; it animates, instructs and cultivates.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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letter to Friedrich Schiller, October 14, 1797


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Though they carry nothing forth with them, yet in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever they come, they be at home.

SIR THOMAS MORE

"Of Their Journeying or Travelling Abroad", Utopia

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The traveler is active; he goes strenuously 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


I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

attributed, The Quotable Traveler


Better sit still where born, I say,
Wed one sweet woman and love her well,
Love and be loved in the old East way,
Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell,
Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles,
And to sail the thousands of watery miles
In search of love, and find you at last
On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast.

JOAQUIN MILLER

Pace Implora


The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Arrow of God

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A man who has travelled and seen the world, brings all countries to his fireside.

GEORGE REDFORD

attributed, Day's Collacon


When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries, where he hath travelled, altogether behind him; but maintain a correspondence by letters, with those of his acquaintance, which are of most worth. And let his travel appear rather in his discourse, than his apparel or gesture; and in his discourse, let him be rather advised in his answers, than forward to tell stories; and let it appear that he doth not change his country manners, for those of foreign parts; but only prick in some flowers, of that he hath learned abroad, into the customs of his own country.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Travel", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Travelling is an excellent means of living in idleness; we acquire by it a kind of knowledge which is not always beneficial, and estrange ourselves from our daily avocations to partake liberally of the vices and pleasures of other people.

T. SMITH

attributed, Day's Collacon


Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Travel", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Travel not too fast, if you would learn.

PETER RAMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Soulful travel is the art of finding beauty even in ruins.

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

FERNANDO CORTEZ

attributed, Conquest of Mexico


Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

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Travel is the soul of civilization.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

attributed, The Art of Pilgrimage

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For many of us, change is the biggest motivation for travel. We have a need for novel scenery, routine, weather or even people.

BLAKE SNOW

"Off The Grid: Why Do We Travel?", Paste Magazine, May 16, 2017


Today's luxury consumer travels in a much more personalized way, taking on various travel personas depending on the trip. Knowing how to ask the right questions to get at the core of what the traveler hopes to experience and achieve is the key.

MATTHEW UPCHURCH

"Interview: Virtuoso Travel CEO on the Future of the New Luxury Traveler", Skift, May 16, 2017


To travel is to possess the world.

E. BURTON HOLMES

American Review of Reviews, December 1907


He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

JULIAN BARNES

Flaubert's Parrot

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Traveling thoughtfully means traveling closer to the core ... like living closer to the core. It means traveling with open eyes, taking in the culture, living like the locals do, as much as a traveler can. Thoughtful travel is not about whizzing through a place or series of places at 90 mph--the old if it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium routine. No, thoughtful travel is slowing down and experiencing the place you are in its fullest.

JANET LUHRS

The Simple Living Guide