Traveler Quotes

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. (Laozi)
A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from. View quote
Lin Yutang
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. View quote
Colette
A wise traveler never despises his own country. View quote
Carlo Goldoni
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. View quote
Saadi
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. View quote
Franz Kafka
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own. View quote
Margaret Mead
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. View quote
Federico García Lorca
Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears Ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly He took her with a sigh. (William Blake)
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. View quote
William Shakespeare
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. View quote
Italo Calvino
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The traveler to the United States will do well, however, to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler". View quote
John Milton
A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in. View quote
Thomas H. Cook
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. (Alan Dean Foster)
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. View quote
Bill Brandt
The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. View quote
Gregory Maguire
I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great! View quote
Harry Melling
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. View quote
Leon Edel