--- title: "15 Think Quotes By Pico Iyer" description: "15 Think quotes by Pico Iyer. Plus more from Pico Iyer and more Think sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/723/pico-iyer-1252_ahead_certainly-i-think-canada-is-many-years-a_530345.png" --- > [Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/certainly-i-think-canada-is-many-years-ahead-of-the-curve-and-still/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/723/pico-iyer-1252_ahead_certainly-i-think-canada-is-many-years-a_530345.png) > [Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/not-having-a-car-gives-me-volumes-not-to-think-or-worry-about-and/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e66/pico-iyer-1252_about_not-having-a-car-gives-me-volumes-not-to_1383307.png) > [A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/a-holy-day-after-all-is-a-day-for-considering-everything-you/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/pico-iyer-1252_considering_a-holy-day-after-all-is-a-day-for-consid_3091295.png) > [I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-think-the-world-is-always-going-to-be-as-diverse-as-it-always-has/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce8/pico-iyer-1252_always_i-think-the-world-is-always-going-to-be_1972954.png) > [I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-think-writing-is-really-about-a-journey-of-understanding-so-you/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/804/pico-iyer-1252_about_i-think-writing-is-really-about-a-journe_2785322.png) > [I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-think-one-reason-obviously-that-i-spend-so-much-time-in-one-place/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/088/pico-iyer-1252_been_i-think-one-reason-obviously-that-i-spen_2738974.png) > [I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-do-think-it-s-only-by-stopping-movement-that-you-can-see-where-to/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bd/pico-iyer-1252_care_i-do-think-it-s-only-by-stopping-movemen_786441.png) > [I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-think-it-s-in-human-nature-to-want-to-have-more-to-compete-with-the/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e89/pico-iyer-1252_compete_i-think-it-s-in-human-nature-to-want-to_2684275.png) > [I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-sometimes-think-that-so-much-of-our-life-takes-place-inside-our/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ae/pico-iyer-1252_begin_i-sometimes-think-that-so-much-of-our-li_1164346.jpg) > [I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-m-very-happy-to-be-a-foreigner-in-japan-and-i-can-t-think-of-a-more/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/pico-iyer-1252_am_i-m-very-happy-to-be-a-foreigner-in-japa_806313.png) > [I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-think-at-this-point-i-only-write-books-about-questions-i-really/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44e/pico-iyer-1252_about_i-think-at-this-point-i-only-write-books_2089147.jpg) > [We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/we-all-know-how-we-can-be-turned-around-by-a-magic-place-that-s-why/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/pico-iyer-1252_anything_we-all-know-how-we-can-be-turned-around_1538811.png) > [Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/nearly-everybody-i-know-does-something-to-try-to-remove-herself-to/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/pico-iyer-1252_clear_nearly-everybody-i-know-does-something-t_941985.png) > [The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-poverty-one-still-sees-in-america-today-is-more-shocking-to-me/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcf/pico-iyer-1252_about_the-poverty-one-still-sees-in-america-to_3057243.png) > [I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-think-of-myself-as-living-so-much-outside-borders-or-old-categories/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e63/pico-iyer-1252_any_i-think-of-myself-as-living-so-much-outs_1550796.png) ## Other authors on Think ## More by Pico Iyer > [ \[The Dalai Lama\] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i-ve-made-every-concession-to/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/for-citizens-who-think-themselves-puppets-in-the-hands-of-their/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-dalai-lama-would-say-that-meditation-is-something-that-can-help/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/like-any-traveler-i-m-always-looking-for-those-experiences-that-are/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [“When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/when-you-re-hurrying-around-too-quickly-he-had-said-there-s-a-part-of/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/we-travel-to-open-our-hearts-and-eyes-and-learn-more-about-the-world/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-dalai-lama-these-days-encourages-westerners-not-to-take-up/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/and-if-travel-is-like-love-it-is-in-the-end-mostly-because-it-s-a/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/as-soon-as-i-began-to-talk-to-dalai-lama-i-realized-that-chinese-and/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/when-we-are-kids-we-imagine-that-to-define-ourselves-or-to-find/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/a-writer-is-a-palmist-reading-the-lines-of-the-planet/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/in-barely-one-generation-we-ve-moved-from-exulting-in-the-time-saving/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/for-centuries-cubas-greatest-resource-has-been-its-people/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/writing-is-in-the-end-that-oddest-of-anomalies-an-intimate-letter-to/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [“Was it only through another that I could begin to get at myself?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/was-it-only-through-another-that-i-could-begin-to-get-at-myself/) [Pico 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