"If we're able to identify our own ignorance,……" — Ted Koppel
"If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding."
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24 Quotes by Ted Koppel
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Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid…
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There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless…
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that…
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite…
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look…
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There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something…
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What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
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To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They…
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