Belief Quotes by Walter Lippmann

10 Belief quotes by Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann dissected the machinery of public thought. In this compact set, his ten quotes illuminate his view that belief is shaped as much by information as by individual conviction.

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In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

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A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world…

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and…

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So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is…

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The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on…

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Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes…

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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

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The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,…

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If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock…

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Even God has been defended with nonsense.

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There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

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

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

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A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and…

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“Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it…

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An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States…

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon…

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