"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."
-Ella Maillart
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"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.“
-Ella Maillart
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"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
-Ella Maillart
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"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."
-Ella Maillart
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"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
-Ella Maillart
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"Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of."
-Ella Maillart
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"Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end."
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
-Plato
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
-H. L. Mencken
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
-Nicolaus Copernicus
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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