“The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”
Source: Forged: Writing in the Name of God
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“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”
Variant: If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.”
“If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.”
Source: A Higher Standard (2015), p. 189
Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964).
Context: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.
“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”
“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”
Source: Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel TV Tie-in Edition