More from Edward R. Murrow
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
Speech to his staff (1954)No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
CBS television broadcast, on See It Now (7 March 1954)
More about experience
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
