Famous Quotes

"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."

Dwight D. Eisenhower on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

• "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

• "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

• "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

• "The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."

• "If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."