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1. I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

~David Rockefeller 2. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. ~Francis Bacon 3. You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. ~William Hazlitt 4. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ~Thomas Fuller 5. Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. ~Sargent Shriver 6. The best education I have ever received was through travel. ~Lisa Ling 7. Traveling is my form of self-education. ~Yvon Chouinard 8. Young people should travel, and they don t. You can t know if you don t go. ~Quincy Jones 9. People who don t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what s in fron t of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. ~Martin Yan 10. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~Aldo us Huxley 11. You have to travel globally today to know what s going on and maintain an edge . ~Yuri Milner 12. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~Hilaire Belloc 13. The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must t ravel through it one s self to be acquainted with it. ~Lord Chesterfield 14. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one s own country as a foreign land. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton 15. Travel works best when you re forced to come to terms with the place you re in. ~Paul Theroux 16. People who don t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what s in fro nt of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. ~Martin Yan 17. Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I ve been to Iran, and if you re there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you se e that, you can t say, Oh, Iran, let s bomb them. ~Viggo Mortensen 18. We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselv es. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than ou r newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ign orance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently d ispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time d own and get taken in, and fall in love once more. ~Pico Iyer 19. To travel is to take a journey into yourself. ~Danny Kaye 20. When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. ~Liberty Hyde

Bailey 21. Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through tra vel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. ~Eudora We lty 22. What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It s like a metaphor fo r life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unkn own place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself. ~Paul Ther oux 23. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unkno wn, that reveals you with yourself. ~Ella Maillart 24. You don t have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you ve artificially placed on your life. It s easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you re always in one place around the same people. ~Timothy Ferriss 25. Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to th e fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and en riched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. ~Ella Maillart 26. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. ~David Mitchell 27. Travel teaches toleration. ~Benjamin Disraeli 28. You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot. ~Shakunta la Devi 29. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of ou r people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the ear th all one s lifetime. ~Mark Twain 30. We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, cat ch some inspiration from heights above our own. ~Maria Mitchell 31. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ~Samuel Johnson 32. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ~Thomas Jeff erson 33. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. ~Lawrence Du rrell 34. I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference betwee n the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillm ent. ~Hilaire Belloc 35. To travel is to take a journey into yourself. ~Danny Kaye 36. It is better to travel well than to arrive. ~Buddha 37. If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class. ~Ray Floyd

Meet new and interesting people 38. I ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. ~Hedy Lamarr 39. Why, I d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of ou r trip. ~Aristophanes 40. I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel s sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson 41. The land created me. I m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I m mor e at home in the vacant lots. ~Bob Dylan 42. Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who des ire to do something they are a bit afraid of. ~Ella Maillart 43. The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to e ncounter the strange and unfamiliar. ~Marshall McLuhan 44. The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~Saint Au gustine 45. Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler s break. Travel should not be hard work. ~Tom Hodgkinson 46. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one s own country as a foreign land. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton 47. Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you diff erently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. ~Terry Pratchett 48. Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goe s on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~Mary Ritter Beard 49. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~Lin Yutang 50. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 51. Travel brings power and love back into your life. ~Rumi

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