“If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.”
Source: The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd 100
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Context: No matter who you are, engaging in the quest to discover where and how things began tends to induce emotional fervor—as if knowing the beginning bestows upon you some form of fellowship with, or perhaps governance over, all that comes later. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
Source: The Education of Little Tree
“If you don't know where you're going, you won't go anywhere.”
Source: Marina
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
“If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.”
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 53
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 39
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.
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
“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