“I set out on my travels knowing, or thinking I knew, how men should live,
how be governed, how educated, what they should believe.
I had my views on every activity of life.
Now, on my return, I find myself without any of
these pleasing certainties . . .
The better you understand the significance of any question, the more difficult it becomes to answer it.
Those who attach a high importance to their own opinion should stay at home.
When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles, but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.”
Aldous Huxley,
after his return home from his first trip around the world
