317 Quotations Found

When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

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

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A wise man feels at home in every country. The whole universe is the home of a noble soul.

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…the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

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When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

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It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

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Thus we presume to write, as it were, upon things that exist not, and travel by maps yet unmade.

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The transformation of entire cities due to tourism follows a simple economic logic: the needs of the locals do not correspond with the needs of the tourists.

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Tourism is a phenomenon that creates many private profits but also many socialized losses.

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If you’re feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you’re different.

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Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

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When people have truly taken their chances wandering alone in the big wide world, they have great stories to tell.

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I’d argue travel is an essential industry, an essential activity. It’s not essential the way hospitals and grocery stores are essential. Travel is essential the way books and hugs are essential. Food for the soul.

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Travel entails wishful thinking. It demands a leap of faith, and of imagination, to board a plane for some faraway land, hoping, wishing, for a taste of the ineffable. Travel is one of the few activities we engage in not knowing the outcome and reveling in that uncertainty. Nothing is more forgettable than the trip that goes exactly as planned.

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Socrates said that philosophy is a preparation for death. For everyone else, there’s travel.

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Travel is fun, so it is not mysterious that we like it. What is mysterious is why we imbue it with a vast significance, an aura of virtue. If a vacation is merely the pursuit of unchanging change, an embrace of nothing, why insist on its meaning?

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Travel is a boomerang. It drops you right where you started.

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Travel prevents us from feeling the presence of those we have traveled such great distances to be near.

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