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Quotes About Insight

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
~ Euripides
People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.
~ Lance Morrow
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
~ Alex Garland, The Beach
Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes
~ Robyn Davidson
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck
One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.
~ Jean Baudrillard
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.
~ James Randi
We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
~ Pico Iyer
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.
~ Franz Kafka
A wise man travels to discover himself.
~ James Russell Lowell
To shut your eyes is to travel.
~ Emily Dickinson
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
~ Cynthia Ozick
I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.
~ Paul Theroux
When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
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
It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
~ Plato
I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.
~ Chris Harrison
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
~ Patti Smith
When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.
~ Nelson Mandela
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
~ Edward Hoagland
Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.
~ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh