Saturday, December 31, 2011

Words of Wisdom

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

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -- Saint Augustine

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” -- Charles Dudley Warner

“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

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -- Henry Miller

“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” -- Moslih Eddin Saadi

It is not down in any map; true places never are.-- Herman Melville

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

I met a lot of people in Europe.  I even encountered myself. -- James Baldwin

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” -- Paul Theroux

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The journey not the arrival matters.” -- T. S. Eliot

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” -- Tim Cahill

“Not all those who wander are lost.” -- J. R. R. Tolkien

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” -- Paul Theroux 

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” -- James Michener