Walter Lippmann Quotes

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Nobody is born wise.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.