Every aspiring traveller must read these timeless pieces of insight.

A compilation of 27 inspirational and insightful quotes that every traveller must read to invoke their adventurous self and give them a nudge to discover, experience and explore new cultures and places.

1. No one realises how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow- Lin Yutang

2. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demostrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends- Maya Angelou

3. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries- Aldous Huxley

4. Twenty years from now, you will be more disppointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do- Mark Twain

5. I love to travel, but hate to arrive- Albert Einstein

6. Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world- Gustav Flaubert

7. And then there’s the most dangerous risk of all- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedoom to do it later- Randy Komisar

8. Not all those who wander are lost- JRR Tolkien

9. Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind- Seneca

10. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all- Hellen Keller

11. Once a year go somewhere you have never been before- Dalai Lama

12. I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them- Mark Twain

13. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer- Anonymous

14. A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles- Tim Cahill

15. Don’t listen to what they say, Go see- Chinese proverb

16. Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled- Anonymous

17. Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret- Oscar Wilde

18. Travel teaches toleration- Benjamin Disraeli

19. Like all great travellers, i have seen more than i remember and remember more than i have seen- Benjamin Disraeli

20. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination with reality and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are- Samuel Johnson

21. Oh the places you will go- Dr. Seuss

22. Wherever you go, go with all your heart- Confucius

23. To travel is to live- Hans Christian Andersen

24. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page- Augustine of Hippo

25. Life is short and the world is wide- Anonymous

26. Live your life by a compass not a clock- Stephen Covey

27. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts- Mark Twain