A guide is a person who leads anyone through unknown or unmapped country. This includes a guide of the real world (such as someone who conducts travellers and tourists through a place of interest), as well as a person who leads someone to more abstract places (such as to knowledge or wisdom).
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Famous quotes containing the word guide:
“Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey
Yet never partake of the treat—
Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull,
Pale ravener of horrible meat.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.”
—William James (1842–1910)