“He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.”
José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
“A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.”
— Lin Yutang, book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 332
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