Walter Lippmann Quotes

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

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What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

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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.

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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

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