Traveling, exposing oneself to exotic and unfamiliar environments has always been considered a necessary activity for the formation of people’s character.
Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the so-called Grand Tour was an activity that every person who wanted a good education had to perform at least once in a lifetime.
It was a journey through Western Europe, especially to countries that had seen the birth of the foundations of Western civilization such as Italy, also the cradle of the Renaissance or cultured France. The most daring even went to Greece, under Muslim rule.
From that innate desire to know more, to see that there is beyond the limits of the places where we have been lucky enough to be born, has been born that lineage of travelers over several centuries. First merchants and pilgrims to holy lands, then nobles and bourgeois and finally, everyone who is encouraged by the desire to know the world.
From these bold, we have received a copious amount of thoughts, quotes and perspectives of this simple but at the same time extraordinary activity of travel.
We collect here some of them, left by some famous people.
Live life without excuses. Travel without regret.”
– Oscar Wilde
We travel not to escape life, but so that life does not escape from us.
– Anonymous.
Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not things to show.
– Anonymous.
Traveling makes us modest. We will see the tiny place we occupy in the world.
– Gustave Flaubert
Traveling is fatal to prejudice, intolerance and narrow-mind.
– Mark Twain
The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.
–St. Augustine
Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never gone.
– Dalai Lama
Traveling and changing places imparts new vigor to the mind.
– Seneca
Take only memories, leave only traces.
– Chief Seattle
Traveling is never a matter of money but of courage.
– Paulo Coelho
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