Mahmud Tarzi Quotes

Travel teaches as much as books.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

He that travels much knows much.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Traveling is a major source of inspiration. There is so much to learn from history and different cultures.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

You get educated by traveling.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

I think you can learn from history.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.