Navigation Quotes

• The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

  Thomas Reid

  House, Ships, Architecture

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.527, Georg Olms Verlag

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• And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

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• It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

  Carol Bly

  Theory, Difficult, Teach

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

  David McCullough

  History, Who We Are, Way

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 13, 2012

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• Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

  Todd Gitlin

  Media, Immensity, Manage

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• Navigation is about wayfinding, you can't treat it as separate because many other things run parallel with it. If you look at studies in wayfinding, everything from exhibit design to building the cathedrals, it's about creating a complete system. It's about looking at the whole.

  Clement Mok

  Running, Creating, Design

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• We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Civilization, Taught, Modern

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• Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it
  to Sailors.

  James Lawrence

  Able, Sailor, Easy

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• If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

  Ken Jennings

  Talking, Car, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

  Peter Drucker

  May, Able, Ships

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• A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

  Maria Mitchell

  Boys, Journey, Please Me

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Spiritual, Stars, Goal

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• You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

  John Henninger Reagan

  Fishing, Law, People

  John Henninger Reagan's speech (January 15, 1861), as quoted in the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 2nd Session (p. 391); also quoted in Kenneth M. Stampp "The Causes of the Civil War" (p. 89), 1959.

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• If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.

  Martha Beck

  Hard Times, Goes On, May

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.17, Harmony

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• The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Needs, Admiral

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• What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

  Robert Herrick

  Sea, Ships, Calm

  Robert Herrick (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

  Dionysius Lardner

  Ocean, Future, Moon

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• I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Pain, Thinking, Order

  "Change". Booklet by Katherine Hunt, issuu.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation.

  Will Ferrell

  Mean, Sea, World

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• Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?

  Plutarch

  Wind, Sea, Oil

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3441, Delphi Classics

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• Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Two, Want

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Insecurity, Rudders

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• I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home.

  Gene Cernan

  Stars, Real, Home

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• Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

  Francis Chichester

  Inspirational, Funny, Drinking

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• He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

  Norman Douglas

  Mind, Atheism, Scylla

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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