Learning through travel Quotes

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

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

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

The value of travel is not just the travel but what the travel makes of you.

I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'