37 Quotes About Walking That Speak to the Flâneur in You

November 11, 2020

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37 Quotes About Walking That Speak to the Flâneur in You

Last Modified: November 11, 2020

Inside every one of us exists a desire to meander and explore. Our best ideas seem to come when we’re aimlessly strolling; it’s as if there’s an intangible connection between thinking and walking. Some of the most famous thinkers from history—including Einsten, Jefferson, Darwin and Socrates—were diligent walkers. Here’s a list of quotes about the iconic flaneur’s favorite pastime.

Blake Miner

Blake is a traveling social scientist (MSocSc) and entrepreneur who writes about the psychology of personal freedom, travel, and location independent business. He's the founder of Flâneur Life, an internet home for free range humans.

Quotes About Walking

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Meandering leads to perfection.
Lao Tzu

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
Søren Kierkegaard

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
Charles Dickens

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.
Henry David Thoreau

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
Jules Renard

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn’t it?
Jeff Lindsay

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright

Walking is man’s best medicine.
Hippocrates

But in every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Paul Dudley White

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy.
Charles Dickens

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
Gretel Ehrlich

We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down.
Robert Sweetgall

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
Raymond Inmon

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy.
Charles Dickens

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson

It is good to collect things; it is better to take walks.
Anatole France

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the sole leather has passed into the fibre of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens

After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.
George Macauley Trevelyan

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril Connolly

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
Thomas Mann

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
J.K. Rowling

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Jacqueline Schiff

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
Henry David Thoreau

Home is everything you can walk to.
Jerry Spinelli Stargirl

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

Early one morning, any morning, we can set out, with the least possible baggage, and discover the world.
Thomas Clark

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.
Gary Snyder

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.
Paul Scott Mowrer

Walking takes longer…than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
Edward Abbey

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“The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy.” – Charles Dickens

This quote certainly speaks to me because of its simplicity and truth. There’s no grandiose prose needed when it comes to striking out for a good walk.

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