The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of reflecting on experiences and memories after accumulating knowledge.
Terry Pratchett highlights that simply gathering knowledge and experiences is not enough; one must take the time to reflect and integrate those experiences into their life. The idea of 'going home' symbolizes the need for introspection and understanding to truly process and appreciate what one has learned.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of personal growth and reflection.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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