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Walter Lippmann - From the Ambition category:
It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Authority category:
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Belief category:
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Business category:
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Character category:
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Complexity category:
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Creativity category:
Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Criticism category:
Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Criticism category:
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Culture category:
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Culture category:
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Danger category:
People who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Discovery category:
The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Experience category:
We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Freedom category:
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Goodness category:
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Guidance category:
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Humanity category:
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Humility category:
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Idealism category:
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Immortality category:
Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Impossibilities category:
It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Integrity category:
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Leadership category:
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)
Walter Lippmann - From the Listening category:
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Love category:
Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Morality category:
Ages, when custom is unsettled, are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Opposites category:
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Philosophy category:
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Politics category:
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Power category:
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Practice category:
What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Purpose category:
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Religion category:
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Seeing category:
The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Silence category:
Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Thinking category:
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Tradition category:
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers' glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Truth category:
The news and truth are not the same thing. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Truth category:
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)
Walter Lippmann - From the Understanding category:
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Wisdom category:
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Work category:
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. (Walter Lippmann)
Walter Lippmann - From the Writing category:
The writers who have nothing to say are the ones you can buy - the others have too high a price. (Walter Lippmann)
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