„He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.“

„No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.“

—  Woodrow Wilson American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921) 1856 - 1924

Section V: “The Parliament of the People”, p. 100 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA100&dq=%22No+student+knows+his+subject%22
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)

„The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows.“

—  Ted Hughes, kniha The Iron Man

Zdroj: The Iron Man (1968), Ch. 1 : The Coming of the Iron Man
Kontext: The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness.

„You'll get back to where you came from.“

—  William Golding, kniha Lord of the Flies

Zdroj: Lord of the Flies

„He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.“

—  Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965

Zdroj: Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

„We don't know much about him. We do know that he came from a sperm meeting an egg. Actually, his name is Charles Mulholland. We don't know what he does, but he sure looks like he knows something.“

—  Brandon Boyd American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976

On Chuck, Smother 1997

„He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.“

—  Victor Hugo, kniha Les Misérables

Zdroj: Les Misérables

„Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.“

—  José Martí Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader 1853 - 1895

„He who does not know what the world is, does not know where he is. And he who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, nor what the world is. But he who has failed in any one of these things could not even say for what purpose he exists himself. What then dost thou think of him who [avoids or] seeks the praise of those who applaud, of men who know not either where they are or who they are?“

—  Marcus Aurelius, kniha Meditations

He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.
VIII, 52
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

„The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.“

—  Vincent de Paul French priest, founder and saint 1581 - 1660

As quoted in A Year with the Saints (1891) by Anonymous, p. 47

„He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.“

—  Neal Shusterman, kniha Unwind

Zdroj: Unwind

„How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.“

—  Marcus Aurelius, kniha Meditations

IV, 18
Zdroj: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

„He didn't look back. He never did“

—  John Flanagan Irish-American hammer thrower 1873 - 1938

„If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

„Alas! she looked but in that eye
Where now was writ her destiny.
The heart love leaves looks back ever;
The heart where he is dwelling, never.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

„Religion as a word points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage; where he senses meanings no less overwhelming because they can be only hinted at in myth and ritual; where he glimpses a destination that he can never know fully until he reaches it.“

—  Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926

„He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.“

—  Laozi, kniha Tao Te Ching

Varianta: Those who know, do not speak, those who speak, do not know.
Zdroj: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 56

„He who comes knows only his coming,
He who goes knows only his end.
To be saved from the chasm,
Why cling to the cliff?
Clouds floating low
Never know where the breezes will blow them.“

—  Sengai Japanese artist 1750 - 1837

Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6

„Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.“

—  Alexandre Dumas, kniha The Count of Monte Cristo

Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo

„He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.“

—  Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862