Philosophy Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Holding onto the naive belief that travel will open.”

— Patti Smith

“Like all men endowed with great mental mobility, I have an irrevocable, organic love of settledness. I abhor new ways of life and unfamiliar…

— Fernando Pessoa

“A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding. There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“TRAVEL IS FATAL TO PREJUDICE, BIGOTRY AND NARROW-MINDEDNESS… BROAD, WHOLESOME, CHARITABLE VIEWS OF MEN AND THINGS CANNOT BE ACQUIRED BY VEGETATING IN ONE LITTLE…

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr

“Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— William Hazlitt

“The people and places we visit reveal more about our commitments and convictions than what we espouse with our lips. Our travel plans make…

— Bruce Main

“This travelling was never about gaining merit or the absolution of sins. It was always the journey that mattered, and what these travels could…

— Charles Allen

“Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn…

— Jack Kerouac

“I had once read a book that said a traveler should always have one and it made a lot of sense.”

— Ilona Andrews

“When I pick up a book and read it, I want to be transported. I want to be taken someplace that I didn't quite…

— Anthony Marra

“But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and into the…

— Walker Percy