Quote by George Orwell

“and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar…

— George Orwell

“Like many people the young man was caught between conflicting cultures, diametrically opposed to each other, and through this he had to navigate. I…

— Cass Tell

“My guides, and indeed those of everyone who gropes through this world, are two. Insolence of the mind, which inquires into everything, and inveterate…

— Ioannes Amos Commenius

“he is not fit to visit strange countries, who cannot rule his tongue before his own countrymen,”

— Walter Scott

“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed…

— Ann Brashares

“A man who has given up his sovereignty fabricates excuses. He tells himself stories. He feeds himself lies.”

— Ryan Michler

“I exist in a twenty-mile radius, but through him, I know all lands, principalities and kingdoms, peoples and customs. I need never be ashamed…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Someone told me once, that he who talks to himself is conversing with a fool. I suppose there's truth in that.”

— Neal Barrett Jr

“Like a real traveller, he looks for whatever he has in common with the people he encounters, to a point where the sense of…

— Mateo Cabello

“He had tales of distant countries.”

— James Joyce

“She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself.”

— Fatima Mernissi

“His stories rarely began in foreign countries, for the minds of listeners cannot easily fly there on their own powers.”

— Hermann Hesse