A Quote by James Baldwin

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

James Baldwin

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James Baldwin
American - Writer
August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen?

Taliesin

Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

Omar Khayyam

I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

Erwin Schrodinger

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

Ramsey Clark

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Omar Khayyam

Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Erwin Schrodinger

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Sophocles

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?

Edward Teach

What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?