Dear Steemit friends and followers,
With the weekend being over soon and the new week ahead of us, let me take this moment to share one of my favorite travel quotes with you.
Source: Quote Fancy, author: Mark Twain, famous American writer, humorist and entrepreneur
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”
What do you think of this interesting quote, my fellow Steemians? Has traveling made you change opinion on anything or realize that you were wrong about any place or nation?
Let me know in the comments below, I am looking forward to your stories and experiences :)
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Tomas
CEO & Founder of CGH
This is realy a good idea to sharing with us your adventure. As you said that “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” i agreed with you. I love traveling and adventure. I am going northern areas tomorroe. And i will share with @czechglobalhosts and steemians to show you the beauty of adventure....
Amazing Quote you shared here @czechglobalhosts, You always doing an impressive work. Quotes are no doubt very helpful in our daily life and we can take initiative as well as guideline from these quotes which are the sayings of great personalities and in which their whole life experience involved. Here *Mark Twain beautifully expressed his views.
What if we don't travel?
True words Tomas. Traveling not only open your mind and increase your knowledge but also give you better understanding about different cultures. It removes a lot of misconception about your understanding of different nation. so it's definitely fatal to prejuidice, bigotry and narrow mindedness. So let's help ourself and do traveling to become broad minded and enjoy the beauty of this world. Thanks for sharing @czechglobalhosts
100% right. Travels meaning refreshment. its a mind refreshment. I think everyone need travels sometimes.
Very true. I think you can only give an opinion of a place if you visited it. I think it has happened to many of us that we make a judgment about a certain place by hearing the opinions of others and, when we visit it personally, it is totally different. It also happens that they recommend many places and when visiting them it was not as they said. Each head is a world. Traveling will make us have our own experience!
This quote is really true and strongly agree with it ...
My own experience proves it ... In 2004 I had the opportunity to visit Hongkong for writing workshop ...
I almost refused this opportunity because I have prejudices that HongKong is a very expensive city and I would certainly have a lot of trouble there ...
But I then just took that chance, and when I got to HongKong and lived for a few days, I realized that all my prejudices were wrong ...😀
Have a good time, dear Tom @czechglobalhosts...😀☕❤
Nice, thank you for sharing your story!
It means that travelling is likely to open up your mind. Bit related to:
“seeing is believing”: you need to visit another place and see it in order to believe how things work there.
“Potemkin village”: you may end up deceived because people are showing you only things they want you to see.
This proverb is IMO less true today than it used to be, killed by globalised tourism. Fly over the earth, stay in a tourist resort, never learn anything about the local life and culture.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”
............. so much truth in so few words.
This world is full of so many negative actions and yet we have these little things that can overcome these huge difficulties. I think the quote is especially relevant to the modern context. We see so much of different cultures in videos and other medias that we tend to absorb those second hand opinions about a region before we actually get to experience their culture on our own.
Travel is perhaps the most important key to global dialogue and understanding at a person to person level (I am not talking about political dialogue). Once we live in place drink it's water and eat its food and sit with their people can we safely say that we got to know about them. This is perhaps what Twain meant about travel being fatal to prejudice.
Travel makes us recognize that our way is not the only way to live lives. If we prefer our own way of life, it encourages us to have strong borders against invaders.
I agree with the quote. Travel opens one's mind. We live in a cocoon when we do not expand our horizon. This I say from my own personal experience of travelling later in life. I learnt so much about other countries and their people and it changes one's perspective.
Indeed!
if you have a narrow mind, you should start traveling, your mind will be broadened and you will start meeting new people, you mind knowledge will be increased and your narrowness will be replaced by broadness. Travel can also help you heal your pain.
Hi, Tomas, your appointments are always lovely. The reasons are incalculable because they depend on each person. You travel to break with the routine, to take distance from the everyday, to know and experience new cultures first hand, to see. You also travel to meet people, to know yourself, to know your own limits. You travel for the best that is adrenaline, for the love of travel, for pleasure to the unknown and for fear of the unknown. It travels simply because we like it ..
I hope I could contributing something interesting as regards the traveling experience, but hopefully soon I could be chance to have one..... But I want to believe touring or traveling will be an awesome moment for those who had.. determination and working towards will make me have one so I could contribute my experience someone day in your post.
well its good travellings its open up your mind refresh motivates
I don't have negative thoughts about any nation but I like your pictures, especially the castle one from today, it feels like travelling when I'm siting at home =) It's awesome!