[S]cience, to [Walter] Lippmann, embodied a deep awareness…

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better…

— Gore Vidal

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. —WALTER LIPPMANN I”

— Robert B. Cialdini

“So in the twentieth century, there’s a major current of American thought―in fact, it’s probably the dominant current among people who think about these…

— Noam Chomsky

“What Lippmann took from the war—as he explained in his 1922 classic Public Opinion—was the gap between the true complexity of the world and…

— Tim Wu

Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped…

— Spiro T. Agnew

“Even though a part of Lippmann was tempted to retreat from the world, to build "walls against chaos," he fought that temptation. He challenged…

— Ronald Steel

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't…

— Toni Morrison

“Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”

— Neil Postman

“When all think alike, no one thinks very much”

— Walter Lippmann

“The right to resign is one of the cherished privileges of a free man; the willingness to resign, when principle and the public interest…

— David Pietrusza

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

— M. Scott Peck

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.”

— Rabelaise