Famous Quotes

"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."

Gerald R. Ford 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 Gerald R. Ford

• "I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."

• "I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."

• "There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things."

• "All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."

• "My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage."