Abstraction Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

— W. S. Merwin

“Human reasoning does not compass everything in all respects, just as vision does not reveal all things to sight.”

— Burhan al-Din Al-Zarnuji

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

— Jack Kornfield

“True North is the internal compass that guides you successfully through life.”

— Bill George

“So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in one pocket for overcast days…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll... it'll point you true north from where you’re standing, but it's got no advice about…

— Tony Kushner

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

— John Wilkins

“Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass.…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it.…

— Anonymous

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

— Kenneth Oppel

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other,…

— Jodi Picoult

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever…

— Thomas Carlyle