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Traveler Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
- We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts…
- It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler…
- The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask…
- A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
- When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
- A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
- There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand…
- I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors,…
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science reports what those…
More Traveler Quotes
- Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. — William Blake
- The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him… — Bill Brandt
- Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men… — Bill Bryson
- All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber
- We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to… — Paul Cellucci
- The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing… — Augustus Toplady
- The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a… — Jean Baudrillard
- It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as… — Paul Theroux
- And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler… — W. Somerset Maugham