Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. John Calvin
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act. Leonardo da Vinci
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one. James Richardson
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. Traditional Proverb
No wind can do him good who steers for no port. French Proverb
It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat. Traditional Proverb