“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
Source: The Education of Little Tree
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Forrest Carter 4
Political speechwriter, politician, novelist, memoirist 1925–1979Related quotes
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“If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.”
Source: The Invention of Wings
“You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go…”
Source: The Power of Myth (book), p. 120
Context: Moyers: Do you ever have the sense of... being helped by hidden hands?
Campbell: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time — namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
“You can only know where you're going if you know where you've been.”
Connections (1979), 9 - Countdown
“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
“You know your the best when people you don't know hate you.”
Variant: You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!