Martha Gellhorn Quotes

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that's just cool. It's worth it because you become more educated in something.

I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

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 mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

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

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

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

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

'Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out there.

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

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.

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

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 don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?