Travel Experience Quotes:

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Wise, Travel, Newness, Irreversible

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with 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.

- Christopher McCandless

topic: Life, Motivational, Travel, Joy Of Living, Inspirational Adventure Time

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful, Beautiful Nature, Soul Beauty

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

- Paulo Coelho

source: Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

topic: Way, Rebirth, Practicals, Travel Experience

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Graduation

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Journey, Inspirational Vacation, Nomad

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Country, Travel, Memories, Eat Your Heart, Inspirational Vacation

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Travel, Taken, Luxury, Experiencing Things, Solo Travel

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

- Lin Yutang

topic: Beautiful, Travel, Home, Journey Inspirational, Inspirational Vacation

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Sacrifice, Eat Love Pray, Adventure And Travel

Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are.

- Muhammad

topic: Travel, Educated, Know How, Travel Experience

Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.

- Roy M. Goodman

topic: Travel Experience

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Marriage, Travel, Adventure, Journey Inspirational, Inspirational Adventure

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

topic: Travel, Memorable, Adventure, Experiencing Things, Journeys And Paths

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Hilaire Belloc

source: Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

topic: Life, Travel, Differences, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

- Rosalia de Castro

topic: Travel, Adventure, Hiking, Solo Travel, Journeys And Paths

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Country, Travel, People, South America, Inspirational Adventure

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

- Emile Genest

topic: Travel, Car, Tourists, Photography And Travel, Travel Experience

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

- Graham Lowe

topic: Sports, Hate, Team, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

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

- Watts Humphrey

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

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

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

topic: Travel, Laughter, Journey, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure

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

topic: Country, Travel, Home, Travel Experience

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

- Francis Bacon

topic: Travel, School, Journey, Solo Travel, Goeth

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

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Home, Adventure, Character, Inspirational Adventure Time, Inspirational Vacation

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

topic: Travel, Journey, People, Travel Experience

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

- Russell Baker

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Funny Journey, Travel Experience

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

topic: Adventure, Passion, Reality, Spirit Of Adventure, Monotonous Life

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ***** 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

topic: Brother, Travel, Hands, Speak Now, Supposition

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

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

topic: Travel, World, Panic, Misplaced, Travel Experience

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

- Helen Keller

topic: Spiritual, Doe, Superstitions, Experiencing Things, Either Or

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

- Herman Melville

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

topic: Nature, Travel, Home, Solo Travel, Travel The World

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice, Journeys And Paths, Travel And Tourism

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

topic: Travel, Hate, Memorable, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Vacation

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

- Shirley MacLaine

topic: Friendship, Travel, Fear, Nice To Meet You, Travel And Tourism

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our 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 earth all one's lifetime.

- Mark Twain

topic: Travel, Memorable, Carpe Diem, Solo Travel, Inspirational Adventure

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

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

- Dagobert D. Runes

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

topic: Travel, Home, People, Nomadic, Travel The World

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

- Phillip Adams

topic: Travel, Holiday, Discovery, Inspirational Holiday, Reassurance

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

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

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel, Journey Inspirational, Life Going On

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

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Inspirational Vacation, Like And Dislike

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

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

topic: Travel, Thinking, Vacation, Winging It, Travel Experience