“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
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American travel writer and novelist 1941Related quotes
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Yogiisms
Variant: You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there.
Variant: If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.[citation needed]
Variant: You got to be careful if you do not know where you are going, because you might not get there.