Quote by Paul Bowles

[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it…

— Paul Bowles

“The distinction often seems precarious. Both traveler and tourist are, by definition, separate from their environment. We like to think that the role we…

— Richard Todd

“He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas…

— Paul Bowles

“...what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a…

— Ted Conover

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

“A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not know where…

— Lin Yutang

“A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being…

— Roxanne Reid

“there was a fine line between being a tourist and being a traveller.”

— John Marrs

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

— Tom Robbins

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”

— Paul Theroux

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they…

— Elias Canetti

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came…

— Lin Yutang