"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ February 16, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-02-12

URL: https://youtu.be/wqfSJbKzMRg

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for February 16, 2016. 

It’s by Oliver Goldsmith, an Irish essayist, poet, novelist, and dramatist.  He lived from 1730 to 1774.

“A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.”

So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine:

“Travel liberates in ways that can be both good and bad.  It depends on the individual. Whereas fools might act polite at home because the eyes of the community are upon them, there are no such constraints when traveling in a distant land where encounters are fleeting, customs are different, misunderstandings are frequent, and nobody is keeping score.  Wise travelers maintain their composure and decorum, while foolish ones takes the easy, self-serving route, regardless of how their behavior impacts others.  They act like fools and are the “ugly” tourists who are so infamous.”

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in February.  I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say.  And leave a comment.  I’d like to hear your thoughts too.  Thanks, and see you tomorrow!

February 1-29, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Rene Descartres
02 Yogi Berra
03 Dave Mathews Band
04 George Santayana
05 (African Proverb)
06  Daniel Boorstin
07 Michel de Montaigne
08 (Korean Proverb)
09 Helen Hayes
10 J. R. R. Tolkien
11 G. K. Chesterton
12 Lord Dunsany
13 (The Dhammapada)
14 Japanese Proverb)
15 James Michener
16 Oliver Goldsmith
17  (Unknown)
18  Hillaire Belloc
19 Kin Hubbard
20 Will Rogers
21 Isabelle Eberhardt
22 Socrates
23 Sri Sathva Baba
24 Thomas Jefferson
25 Charles Louis de Secondat
26 (Quran: Al-Hujurat/13)
27 William Least Heat Moon
28 Saint Augustin of Hippo
29 Samuel Butler

Presented by Dr. Stan McGahey.  Want to learn how the tourism industry works? View my free series of short, narrated PPTs on a variety of important topics, entitled “Demystifying Tourism” on YouTube.