Travel Experience Quotes - Page 2

• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• 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

  Life, Travel, Laughter

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam

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• 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.

  Rolf Potts

  Country, Travel, Home

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

  Francis Bacon

  Travel, School, Journey

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

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• We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.273, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Travel, Journey, Difficult Situations

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

  Russell Baker

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our 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.

  Aron Ralston

  Passion, Adventure, Reality

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

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Ass, Gentle

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Brother, Hands

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

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• 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.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Travel, Lost Ones, World

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Hate, Memorable

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Travel, Fear

  "Don't fall off the mountain". Book by Shirley MacLaine, 1985.

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

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.172, Open Road Media

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

  Phillip Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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  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.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “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”, p.1013, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Thinking, Vacation

  Interview with Ali Trachta, www.laweekly.com. August 27, 2012.

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