Globe Trotters Quotes & Sayings

God, the king of artists, was clumsy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy ... .The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be an exceptional sort of citizen who has or claims the right to rule over ten cities, and these remote and altogether alien cities ... To make all politics cosmopolitan is to create an aristocracy of globe-trotters. If your political outlook really takes in the Cannibal Islands, you depend of necessity upon a superior and picked minority of the people who have been to the Cannibal Islands; or rather of the still smaller and more select minority who have come back. — G.K. Chesterton

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. — G.K. Chesterton

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence. — Jeff Hawkins

Visualize a place that you really love, be there, see the details. Now write about it. — Natalie Goldberg

Social scientists generally agree that students' families (especially family income, which determines advantages and opportunity) have an even bigger impact on student performance than their school or teachers. — Diane Ravitch