These wander quotes will inspire you. Wander to move around or go to different places usually without having a particular purpose or direction or walk or move in a leisurely, casual, or aimless way.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging wander quotes, wander sayings, and wander proverbs.
Famous Wander Quotes
- “Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.” ~ Nikola Tesla
- “I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with” ~ Plato
- “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
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“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anatole France
- “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ~ Terry Pratchett
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“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” ~ Rosalia de Castro
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
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“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
- “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do” ~ Lewis Carroll
- “All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien , Wander quotes and lost - “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” ~ Samuel Johnson
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“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” ~ Shirley MacLaine
- “Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!” ~ John Muir
- “I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.” ~ Bill Bryson
- “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” ~ Bill Bryson
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“If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” ~ Cesare Pavese
- “Once you have traveled, 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
- “No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)” ~ Jim Butcher
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“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” ~ James A. Baldwin
- “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
- “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer
- “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” ~ Judith Thurman
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“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends” ~ Cesare Pavese
- “Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many cares, and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.” ~ Richard Francis Burton
- “If you don t know where you are, a map won’t help.” ~ Watts Humphrey
- “We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.” ~ Pico Iyer
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“Deep roots are not reached by the frost.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” ~ Paul Fussell
- “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel” ~ Paul Fussell
- “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.” ~ Michael Palin
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“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ~ Susan Sontag
- “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads.” ~ Rosalia de Castro
- “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” ~ Peter Høeg
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Laozi
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“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” ~ Yogi Berra
- “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ~ Anais Nin
- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life” ~ Michael Palin
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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “If I were mayor, I’d invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I’d let the elderly in residential homes wander free.” ~ Jane Birkin
- “And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” ~ Earl Mac Rauch
- “Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.” ~ Gautama Buddha , Thoughts wander quotes
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“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” ~ Chief Seattle
- “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” ~ Pico Iyer
- “We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” ~ Ray Bradbury
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“It’s hard to get lost if you don’t know where you’re going.” ~ Jim Jarmusch
- “I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.” ~ James Taylor
- “When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.” ~ Jack Abbott
- “Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.” ~ Georges Bataille
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“I don’t really have studios. I wander around – around people’s attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.” ~ Andrew Wyeth
- “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
- “I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.” ~ Grace Paley
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.” ~ Tertullian
- “I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.” ~ Isaac Newton
