Famous Quotes

"My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis."

Jim Lehrer 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 Jim Lehrer

• "I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four."

• "Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid."

• "I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four."

• "In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's."

• "I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope."