Geographers Quotes

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Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable! — Michael Palin
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin… — Plutarch
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as… — Ambrose Bierce
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim… — Heinrich Schliemann
GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside. — Ambrose Bierce
"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists. — George Bernard Shaw
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. — John Ralston Saul
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns — Jonathan Swift
Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off… — Knut Hamsun

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