James Torpey Travel1 Here is a list of some of my favorite travel quotes. These quotes truly capture what makes traveling such an amazing experience.

 

1) “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

2) “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.” – Maya Angelou

3) “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

4) “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli   5) “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson   6) “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine   7) “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

5) “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson   6) “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine   7) “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

6) “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine   7) “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

7) “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton James Torpey Travel4

8) “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

9) “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

10) “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.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

11) “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc James Torpey Travel2

12) “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

13) “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener

14) “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

15) “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

16) “Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour

17) “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson