Thomas a Kempis Quotes

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way... but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you... only knowledge.

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Life is just a journey.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

We live because of the dreams.

I write about living, not dying.

To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.

Give light and people will find the way.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

We either live with intention or exist by default.