Quotes About Curiosity

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

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

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

Music should always be an adventure.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

He who strays discovers new paths.

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

Travel spoils you for regular life.

Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.