Anthony Bourdain Quotes

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

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.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.

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

Travel teaches as much as books.

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

I like to absorb the atmosphere and explore wherever I'm working or visiting, so I can't say there's any type of place I don't like. When you travel you have to be open to new experiences.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

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

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.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.