Adam Ferguson

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

Scottish Philosopher

Kenneth Grahame

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

Scottish Novelist

Max Planck

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

German Scientist

Sun Yat-sen

At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.

Chinese Leader

Abraham Lincoln

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

American President

Thornton Wilder

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

American Novelist

Sabine Baring-Gould

No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.

English Clergyman

David Starr Jordan

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

American Writer

Oliver Cromwell

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

English General

Jack Kerouac

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

Used mainly in literature or historic texts, seldom in everyday conversation.

Literary Usage

Gives a poetic, old-fashioned touch to language when used.

Poetic Tone

Implies a destination or direction without stating it explicitly.

Destination Implied

Often used to ask about someone's path or decisions in a philosophical way.

Questioning Path

Found in historical or religious dialogues to sound authentic to the period.

Historical Dialogues

Used rhetorically to question one's own choices or direction in life.

Introspective Queries

 threats persist for the long term so we can think of neurons in the brain as being a bit like trees with branches and those branches are called dendrites and the prefrontal cortex which is involved in reasoning and decision-making we actually see those branches begin to kind of whither and die back while it's