Famous Quotes

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

Henry A. Kissinger 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 Henry A. Kissinger

• "A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."

• "People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours."

• "Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

• "Diplomacy: the art of restraining power."

• "A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."