224 Quotes About Maps

Mental maps. Maps with edges. And for Auden, for so many of us, it's the edges of the maps that fascinate...

Every sapient species has a long, messy history of powers that rise and fall. The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads.

Taoists don’t have any maps.

...los mapas sólo tienen dos puntas: el origen y el destino. Si sabemos ubicar en dónde estamos ahora, tendremos la mitad del éxito asegurado.

Se le vie marittime non si lasciano circoscrivere facilmente forse è perché sono intrecciate di racconti e le leggende: le carte su cui sono state segnate sono forse immaginarie, gli scritti che le accompagnano inventati

It’s the edges of the maps that fascinate ...

And outside the window was like a map, except it was in 3 dimensions and it was life-size because it was the thing it was a map of.

Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now