I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.


Compare: "You can never plan the future by the past", Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, Vol. iv. p. 55. - "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (1775)

Patrick Henry Quotes

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.