Inspiring Travel Quotes to Spark Your Wanderlust

Here is a collection of the a few inspiring travel quotes, said or written by some of the most admired minds in the world.

"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." – Gustave Flaubert

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love." - Ernest Hemingway

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." – St. Augustine

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." – Mark Twain

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." – Robert Louis Stevenson

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." – Anais Nin

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." – Henry Miller

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." – Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, me may even become friends." – Maya Angelou

"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in." – D.H. Lawrence

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners." – Mason Cooley

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." – Paul Theroux

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." – Hilaire Belloc

"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place." – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." – Henry David Thoreau

"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents." - Italo Calvino

"For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy, and the sacrifice of comfort." - Aldous Huxley

"Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey." – Pat Conroy

"Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by." – Cynthia Ozic

"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled." – Mohamed

"Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God." – Kurt Vonnegut

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain