“Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
— Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah
“I have been a stranger in a strange land.”
— Exodus, II. 22.
“Though they carry nothing forth with them, yet in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever they come, they be at home.”
— Sir Thomas More. "Of Their Journeying or Travelling Abroad," Utopia, bk. 2.
“In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path.”
— Sanu Sharma, Pharak
“The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.”
— Xun Zi quoted in: Errick A. Ford (2010) Iron Sharpens Iron: Wisdom of the Ages, p. 48.
“Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.”
— Alfred Tennyson, paraphrasing Johnson. See Locker-Lampson's Recollections of a tour with Tennyson, in Memoirs of Tennyson by his son, II. 73. See also Criticism by Byron in his Diary, Jan. 9, 1821. "Let observation with observant view, / Observe mankind from China to Peru." Goldsmith's paraphrase. Caroline Spurgeon—Works of Dr. Johnson. (1898). De Quincey quotes it from some writer, according to Dr. Birkbeck Hill—Boswell. I. 194. Coleridge quotes it, Lecture VI, on Shakespeare and Milton.
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