We must travel in the direction of our fear. ”

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. ”

You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out. ”

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ”

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

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.”

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ”

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end. ”

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it -- basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. ”

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. ”

…nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes common ground, and a common bond, and we cease to be alone. ”

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ”

People who do not travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. ”

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

...I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working. ”

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

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, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. ”

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.”

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

Life for two weeks on the mountaintops would show up many things about life during the other fifty weeks down below. ”

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. ”

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere. ”

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

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ”

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”

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

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ”

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. ”

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. ”

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

Definition of Global Competence: "Having an open mind while actively seeking to understand cultural norms and expectations of others, and leveraging this gained knowledge to interact, communicate and work effectively in diverse environments."”

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”

Is anything sadder than a train/That leaves when it's supposed to/That has only one voice/Only one route?”

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

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”

Travel teaches toleration. ”

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only who is foreign.”

A wise traveler never despises his own country. ”

Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.”