Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

I just try to make my home everywhere I go as much as I possibly can.

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.

I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.