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Quotes About Discovery

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
~ William Wordsworth
I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
~ Muhammad Ali
I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
~ Patrick Troughton
I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
~ Eden Sher
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
~ Samuel Johnson
My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.
~ Walt Whitman
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
~ Anthony Bourdain
There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.
~ Linda Sunshine
There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.
~ Paul Theroux
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
~ Ann Beattie
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
~ Anatole France
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.
~ Neil Simon
I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
~ Tatjana Patitz
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
~ Bernard M. Oliver
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldnt seated in the confines of your home.
~ Imtiaz Ali
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
~ Patti Smith
An English man does not travel to see English men.
~ Laurence Sterne
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.
~ Jan Morris
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
~ Edward Hoagland
For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
~ Ella Maillart