Traveler Mindset Quotes

Even on holidays, I wake up early, and by 7 A.M., I am out sightseeing.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

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

[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 with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home.

Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

I'm definitely a jaded traveler, but you try to make the best of what you know about the experience. Like, I know how to pack a bag. I know that checking a bag is for rookies.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.