Navigation Quotes

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing, the discovery of America, and the introduction of patent laws.

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

A yacht is not for me. I don't enjoy it.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Where would I be without my sense of direction.