Timothy Leary Quotes

There are no signposts in the sea.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

Who needs bread crumbs," Dan replied, "when you have GPS?

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

To find where you are going, you must know where you are.

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

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.

A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.