Samuel Johnson Quotes

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.

I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I think that's the most enriching thing, for my nature, because I like the psychology of people.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to.

We have an amazing job. We get to travel around the world and experience different cultures and just learn so many things.

All the exhausting aspects of my job are made worthwhile because I get to experience so many different cultures. It makes you really appreciate the memories.

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.