"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 23, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-22

URL: https://youtu.be/t7Du1F_Z1gU

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 23, 2016. 

It’s by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the famous German writer, scientist, and statesman .  Goethe was born in 1749 and died in 1832.

“You don’t have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.”

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

“Well, believe it or not, not everyone sees the value of traveling.  Goethe, the icon of German culture, seems to believe in a small sample size when it comes to generalizing about the world. It’s as if he’s saying, ‘If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.’  This is ironic in two ways.  One is the fact the modern-day Germans have one of the highest travel propensities in the world, and, secondly, Goethe’s tour of Italy as a young man spurred his intellectual growth and made him an international figure in literature and science.”

Now…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.  And leave a comment.  I’d like to hear your thoughts too.  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.