Quotes About Curiosity

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

I beg young people to travel.

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger.

No one should be required to see America for the first time.

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them