The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known… — David Bainbridge Copy Share Image
The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Paris is not so square. I'm not good at the geography of the city in Paris, so I'm always lost. Here, in… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
I would say that the fundamental question of geography is about how humans shaped the Earth's surface and how we, in turn,… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and… — Gerardus Mercator Copy Share Image
[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
In America we now live more in fear than in hope, and eventually that will lead to ignorance and hatred. We need… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
“The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Even people who aren't engaged on the actual battlefield - the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies,… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili.… — Richard Bushman Copy Share Image
The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image