You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. --William Hazlitt--
He who strays discovers new paths. --Nils Kjær--
Not all those who wander are lost. --J. R. R. Tolkien--
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe…… --Anatole France--
He who does not travel does not know the value of men. --Moorish proverb--
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us. -- George Gordon Noel Byron --
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. --George Gordon Noel Byron--
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. --Robert Neely Bellah, Habits of the Heart--
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. --Lillian Smith--
Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. --Frank Herbert--
Don't listen to what they say. Go see. --Chinese proverb--
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged. --Howard Gardner--
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. --Helen Keller--
There is an expression – walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people, and in one’s personal life, is the headstone of travel. --Juliette de Bairacli Levy, Traveler’s Joy--
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. --John Steinbeck--
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--
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