“By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.”

“Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.”

C.K. Prahalad (1941–2010) Indian academic

“All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.”

Paul Theroux book The Great Railway Bazaar

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

“It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradation we surmount the force of local prejudice as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) French phenomenological philosopher

“International specialization and division of labor requires institutions and organizations to safeguard property rights across international boundaries so that capital markets as well as other kinds of exchange can take place with credible commitment on the part of the players.”

Douglass C. North (1920–2015) American Economist

“Identity is much less a thing people "inherit" than it used to be.”

Barry Schwartz book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist