3,660 Quotes About Travel

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God...If that spirit is life, then I found life...If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it's all three...all I had to do to discover that spirit and the resulting feeling of humility and appreciation was not to look or listen or taste or feel. All I had to do was remember, for what I was looking for I somehow already knew.

When you travel in the world, you read from the vast expanse of human thought and experience, you realise you know so little.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.

He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion.

The thing about leaving home, that self proclaimed exile, is that you love it even more if it is that bird that sings you the answer when you visit it after being gone for extended periods of time. The longer you are away the more you will think about going back. If only for your eyes to weep at the changes.