Walter Lippmann quotes

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

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.

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.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

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

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

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.