Famous Quotes

"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

Harold MacMillan 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 Harold MacMillan

• "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."

• "I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

• "It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."

• "At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

• "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."