–James Rumford [Widely Misattributed to Ibn Battuta, See Source Notes]
Travel
733 – “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
–anonymous [See Source Notes]
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594 – “Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.”
–Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo [Attributed]
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463 – “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but – well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
–Sally Carrol Happer in F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Ice Palace”
438 – “We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don’t overlook it.”
–anonymous
80 – “L’univers est une espece de livre, dont on n’a lu que la premiere page quand on n’a vu que son Pays.”
“The universe is a sort of book, whose first page one has read when one has seen only one’s own country.”
– Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron