Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.

If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

I rarely have out-of-town visitors because you have to do things like take them around L.A.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.

The duties of the ruler are like those of the helmsman of a great ship. From his lofty position, he makes slight movements with his hands, and the ship, of itself, follows his desires and moves. This is the way whereby the one may control the ten thousand and by quiescence may regulate activity.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them.

A guru is like a live road map. If you want to walk uncharted terrain, I think it is sensible to walk with a road map.

It's always better when travelling to be in a place where your friends know the area well.

Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay.

What did he say?" Hazel asked. "With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top," Percy replied.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.

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

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.