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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

— David Guterson

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

— Albert Camus

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

— Robert Burns

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

— Robert Mondavi

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

— Martin Yan

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.

— Paul Harris

Though we live in the world, we must not be of the world.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

✗Opposing Perspectives

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

— Lao Tzu

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

— Anthony Fauci

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

— Michael Novak