Author: Walter Lippmann

Quotes

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

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

- Walter Lippmann

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

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

- 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

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

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

- 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

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

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

- Walter Lippmann

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

- Walter Lippmann

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