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“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

“Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are.”

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Author:Muhammad

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

“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.”

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Book:All Things Considered

Source: All Things Considered

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

Source: Moby Dick

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

Source: Places

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'”

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

Source: With Love and Irony

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

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Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”

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Author:Rolf Potts

“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.”

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Book:Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

Source: The Innocents Abroad

“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

“I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.”

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

“To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.”

“Let your memory be your travel bag.”

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”

Source: Treasury of Thought

“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.”

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Book:The Innocents Abroad

Source: The Innocents Abroad

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.”

“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.”

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Book:The Innocents Abroad

Source: The Innocents Abroad

“When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”

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Author:Emile Genest

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.”

“Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”

“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.”

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“If you don't know where you're going any road will do”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

“There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.”