There goes this famous Chinese proverb: "Reading ten thousand scrolls of books is no better than traveling ten thousand miles of journey.(读万卷书不如行万里路)"
Enjoy the following selected photos of magnificent scenery and other inspiring travel quotes thereafter!
Selected Inspiring Travel Quotes:1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain
2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine
3. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” - Moorish proverb
4. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang
5. “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.” - Samuel Johnson
6. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
7. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” - Moslih Eddin Saadi
8. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard
9. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” - Jawaharial Nehru
10. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” - Paul Theroux
11. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” - Bill Bryson
12. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” - Lao Tzu
14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu
15. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” - James Michener
16. “The journey not the arrival matters.” - T. S. Eliot
17. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” - Mark Twain
18. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” - Pat Conroy
19. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli
20. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe” - Anatole France
21. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” - Seneca
22. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley
23. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” - Clifton Fadiman
24. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” - Carlo Goldoni
25. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” - George Bernard Shaw
26. “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” - Hilaire Belloc
26. “We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.” - Phil Cousineau
27. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” - Glenn Clark
28. “Travel for the young is a part of education, for the old, a part of experience.” - Francis Bacon
29. “I have seen, tasted and touched many places. This has made me realize, how small, how connected, how wonderful the earth is.” - Anton Verwey
30. “People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” - Saint Augustine
31. “If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel” - Will Kommen
32. “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 more lovingly, our own.” - Margaret Mead
33. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. ” - James Michner
33. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. ” - James Michner