Walter Lippmann Quotes

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

I like to read and understand.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.