Quote #53
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
More from Henry Kissinger
- There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
- Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
- The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
- When you meet the president, you ask yourself, 'How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?'
- The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
- Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the …