Norton Juster Quotes

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

By walking, I found out where I was going.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

I believe if I knew where I was going, I'd lose my way.

He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

Not all those who wander are lost.

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I can be another thing; I’m meant to be another thing.

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.