Walter Lippmann Famous Quotes
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
"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."
Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.
"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."
"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."
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.
"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 Quotations
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
Mahatma Gandhi
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
Charles M Schulz
Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
Robert Burton
"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship."
Robert Anthony
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Word is a shadow of a deed.
Democritus
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past."
Madame Chiang
"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day."
Ray Douglas Bradbury
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
Cullen Hightower