Stella Benson Quotes

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

If we don’t go, we don’t know.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

People die when curiosity goes.