Quotes of Explorer - somelinesforyou

“ I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead — ahead of myself as well as you. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. ”

- Lao tzu

“ We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. ”

- Elwyn Brooks White

“ The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.". ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ We're all pilgrims on the same journey — but some pilgrims have better road maps. ”

- Nelson DeMille

“ We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven. ”

- Pope Paul VI

“ WOMAN: How does time travel work, anyway? Impossible and absurd, I've read.TIME TRAVELER: According to today's physics and logic, that's true. They'll learn better in the future. ”

- Poul Anderson

“ The traveler is active; he goes strenuously in search of people, of adventure, or experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ They were real pioneers. ”

- Stefan Kanfer

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

- Paul Theroux

“ All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. ”

- Martin Buber

“ The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ”

- Charles Dickens

“ There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here.". ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ”

- Marion Zimmer Bradley

“ The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape. ”

- Federico Garcia Lorca

“ On this earth all is temptation.... We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home. ”

- Francois Fenelon

“ The Traveler and His Dog A Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself. He asked him sharply: Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so come with me instantly. The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: O, master! I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting… ”

- Aesop

“ Travel, then, is a voyage into that famously subjective zone, the imagination, and what the traveler brings back is — and has to be — an ineffable compound of himself and the place, what's really there and what's only in him. ”

- Pico Iyer

“ Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. ”

- Alan Dean Foster

“ It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. ”

- Bill Brandt

“ Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. ”

- Robert Wieder

“ I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of food. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray. ”

- Roger Von Oech

“ I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person. ”

- Michael Palin

“ A wise traveler never despises his own country. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith
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