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Walter Lippmann Inspirational Quotes (219)

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When all think alike, then no one is thinking
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Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
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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.
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A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
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There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant fail to use them and it is weak.
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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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.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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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.
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If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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