Walter Lippman Quotes - Famous Quotes by Walter Lippman
Born: 1889-09-23
Died: 1974-12-14
Walter Lippman Biography
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
- Walter Lippman
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Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.
- Walter Lippmann
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann
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Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.
- Walter Lippmann
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Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
- Walter Lippmann
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People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.
- Walter Lippmann
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
- Walter Lippmann
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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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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
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
- Walter Lippmann
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
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When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
- Walter Lippmann
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
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