travel broadens the mind

travel broadens the mind

1911 ‘SAKI’ ‘Way to Dairy’ in Chronicles of Clovis (Short Stories of Saki, 1958) 195 ‘Travel enlarges the mind, my dear Christine,’ said her aunt. ‘Yes, dear aunt, travel undertaken in the right spirit,’ agreed Christine; ‘but travel pursued merely as a means towards gambling and extravagant living is more likely to contract the purse than to enlarge the mind.’

1929 G. K. CHESTERTON Poet & Lunatics iii. He may be a trifle cracked,..but that’s only because his travels have been too much for his intellect. They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

1949 N. STREATFEILD Painted Garden iii. Foreign travel broadens the mind..and a broadened mind helps all art.

1969 ‘E. LATHEN’ When in Greece xvii. ‘The Americans we have met compare very favorably with most other nationals.’ Travel, after all, can broaden only so many minds.

1981 C. KING Commonplace Book 22 It has so truly been said that travel—anywhere—broadens the mind.

1997 Times 24 Dec. 14 The past may be a foreign country through which we travel as strangers. But travel still broadens the mind.


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