Quote by Walter Lippmann
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. – Walter Lippmann

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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. – Walter Lippmann

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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. – Walter Lippmann

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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. – Walter Lippmann

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It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. – Frederick Sanger

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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. – Jonathan Kozol

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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. – Alexis Carrel

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We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. – H.L. Mencken

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