"If you don't know what port you are……" — Seneca the Younger
"If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable."
More Favourable Quotes
- If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. — Winston Churchill
- Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both… — William Osler
- The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard
- I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive.… — Bertrand Russell
- There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable. — William Shakespeare
- It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder,… — Maurice Wilkins
- It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed — Charles Darwin
- It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent… — Antonio Gramsci
- Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume… — John Maynard Keynes
- The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power… — Edmund Burke