Quotes About Navigation

inconspicuous left-hand turn off a

hundred yards from the north end of Main Street. Further

Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else - ignorance, for example...Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

Quelli che s'innamorano della pratica senza la scienza, sono come i nocchieri che entrano in naviglio senza timone o bussola, che mai hanno certezza dove si vadano. Sempre la pratica dev'essere edificata sopra la buona teorica, della quale la prospettiva è guida e porta, e senza questa nulla si fa bene.

Bitte sage mir, welchen Weg ich gehen soll. Das hängt davon ab, wohin du willst.

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to...

I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.

If you don't know where you are going it doesn't matter which road you take.

but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?

about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either

What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines? So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply They are merely conventional signs!

Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "You're travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.

That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where—' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

Sino sabes a dónde vas, cualquier camino te llevará allí

Sometimes you had to become a different version of yourself to move safely through certain spaces in the world.

In the way Boston works, a random street has appeared ahead, forking a right diagonal, not to be confused with the three other diagonals flaring out around it.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.