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Quotes About Insight

No matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.
~ Jack Kerouac
The more you travel, the better you get at it.
~ Roman Coppola
He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
~ Samuel Johnson
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see.
~ Ralph Lauren
Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
~ Lionel Richie
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
~ Sara Genn
Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.
~ Mark Hertsgaard
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The value of travel is not just the travel but what the travel makes of you.
~ Robin Sharma
We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it.
~ Ben Gazzara
The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.
~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it.
~ S.A. Tawks, Mule
Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.
~ Unknown
On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
~ Dan Spencer
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
~ Jonathan Swift
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
~ Amelia Earhart
In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
~ Arthur Miller