Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby—so helpless and so ridiculous.


Journal, 1833


No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby—so helpless...

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby—so helpless...

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby—so helpless...

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby—so helpless...