Author:Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann “When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. ”

Walter Lippmann “There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. ”

Walter Lippmann “While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important. ”

Walter Lippmann “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. ”

Walter Lippmann “The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. ”

Walter Lippmann “True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective. ”

Walter Lippmann “In the course of a debate with Lewis Terman: Without offering any data on all that occurs between conception and the age of kindergarten, they announce on the basis of what they have got out of a few thousand questionnaires that they are measuring the hereditary mental endowment of human beings. Obviously, this is not a conclusion obtained by research. It is a conclusion planted by the will to believe. It is, I think, for the most part unconsciously planted... If the impression takes root that these tests really measure intelligence, that they constitute a sort of last judgment on the child's capacity, that they reveal "scientifically" his predestined ability, then it would be a thousand times better if all the intelligence testers and all their questionnaires were sunk in the Sargasso Sea. ”

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