Great Travel Quotes

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

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~ Lao Tzu

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~ St. Augustine

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” ~ Paul Fussell

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

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

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~ Aldous Huxley

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~ G.K. Chesterton

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