The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. read more

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart

The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or read more

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce read more

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but read more

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.