Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ”

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

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

Don't tell me how educated you are; tell me how much you have traveled.”

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

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

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ”

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

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

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

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. ”

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. ”

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.”

Travel is glamourous only in retrospect.”

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

Too often… I would hear men boast only of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.”

We must travel in the direction of our fear. ”

He who would travel happily must travel light.”

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

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ”

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

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

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”

Travel teaches toleration. ”

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."”

…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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. ”

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

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

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

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

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

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. ”

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

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.”

A map is not the territory.”