The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or…

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.

— Laozi

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

— William Shakespeare

Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them…

— Anonymous

The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them.…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

— Henry David Thoreau

A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place…

— Bruce Chatwin

I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it literally was…

— Kiese Laymon

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

— Pico Iyer

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

— Mahmoud Darwish

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some…

— Trudi Canavan

I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.

— Ricki-Lee Coulter

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something…

— Samuel Johnson

“Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former…

— Steven Erikson