"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 2, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-03

URL: https://youtu.be/ylkSYjTodyc

Hello Thoughtful Travelers! Welcome to today’s thought for January 2, 2016!

Today’s thought is a Chinese proverb. During their 4,000 years of recorded history, the Chinese have created thousands of proverbs.  In China, proverbs are used to illustrate points in all types of conversations and writings.

“Don't listen to what they say. Go see.”

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

“You can only learn so much from what other people tell you about the world, what you read about it, or what you see in photos or in the movies.  To really know a place, you have to go there yourself.  You need to meet the local people, poke around a bit, and get you own feel for the place. Then you can make your own judgments based on your own personal experiences.  Your perspective will be different than others, and what is most important to you, may not be nearly as important to others. So find out for yourself.  Then you’ll know for sure.

Here’s the list of all the sources quoted in January. I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say. Thanks, and see you tomorrow!

January 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):

01 Seneca the Younger
02 Chinese Proverb
03 Democritus
04 Agnes Repplier
05 Paul Theroux
06 Ralph Waldo Emerson
07 Mark Twain
08 Zhuang Zhou
09 Albert Einstein
10 William Shakespeare
11 Ban Ki-moon
12 Turkish Proverb
13 Gertrude Stein
14 (Advertisement)
15 Carl Sandburg
16 Stan McGahey
17 Buddha
18 Michael Palin
19 Shunryu Suzuki
20 Ernest Hemingway
21 Kabir
22 Freya Stark
23 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24 Nils Kjaer
25 Ed Buryn
26 (Unknown)
27 Henry David Thoreau
28 Jan Myrdal
29 Louis L’Amour
30 William Hazlitt
31 Roy Goodman

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.