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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Sep 10, 2025
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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