Famous Quotes

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

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."

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

• "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."