Famous Quotes

"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."

John le Carre 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 John le Carre

• "By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."

• "When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."

• "I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."

• "I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making."

• "More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature."