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.

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

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

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.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.