Serge Ibaka Quotes

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

You get educated by traveling.

I'm doing great in England.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.

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.

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.

In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.