Eye Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

— Harriet Martineau

“There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at directions to…

— Stephen Clarke

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's…

— Thomas H. Cook

There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has…

— Adam Gopnik

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.

— Mark Hertsgaard

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the…

— Louis L'Amour

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at…

— Giorgio Morandi

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for…

— David Friedrich Strauss

Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes.

— Esther Perel

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

— Miyamoto Musashi