Quotes on Time Travel

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

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.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

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

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.