SEAS OF THOUGHT

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore . . .
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. --Isaac Newton
My knowledge [was] like a drop in a vast ocean of promise. --Tom Sen
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. --Isaac Singer
they never venture on the open sea of thought. --Francois Gautier
Judgment . . . sets forth on intellectual seas
beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. --Kingman Brewster, Jr.
No one would ever have crossed the ocean
if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm. --Charles Kettering
[Yet,] Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? --Shimon Peres
Those who plow the sea do not carry the winds in their hands. --Publilius Syrus
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea
driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. --Martin Luther
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight. . . --Horatio Nelson

You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in. --Susan Strasberg
as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. --Iris Murdoch
And the sea will grant each man new hope . . .
his sleep bring dreams of home. --Christopher Columbus