Burn Your Maps Quotes & Sayings

I was with you and I have left traces in your heart; but the wind did not hear our voices. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse. — Isak Dinesen

I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time. — Reif Larsen

Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [ ... ] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does. — Patrick Rothfuss

Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing. — Richard Brautigan

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. — Michel De Montaigne

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt. — Ron Fournier

Our principal claim here is that patients and doctors should be free to make their own agreements about that right. If patients want to waive the right to sue, they should be allowed to do exactly that. This increase in freedom is likely to help doctors and patients alike, and to make a valuable, even if modest, contribution to the health care problem. — Richard H. Thaler

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself — Henry David Thoreau

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education. — Aristotle.

She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go; she had been locked into a dead relationship and now the last dried skin of it had fallen away, like the scab on a wound, and she was free. — Alexander McCall Smith

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win. — Peter V. Brett

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data. — Nick Bostrom