Quotes About Curiosity

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else

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.

One must travel, to learn.

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.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

[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.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.