Author: Walter Lippmann

Quotes

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

- Walter Lippmann

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

- Walter Lippmann

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

- Walter Lippmann

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

- Walter Lippmann

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

- Walter Lippmann

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

- Walter Lippmann

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

- Walter Lippmann

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

- Walter Lippmann

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