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"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."
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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."
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"The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge."
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"Ignorance is the darkest depths."
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"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
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"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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"Life is all about discovery."
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"Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing."
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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."
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Explore more quotes by Walter Lippmann

"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."
People

"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
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"Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail."
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"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."
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"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."
Being

"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
Man

"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."
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"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
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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."
Nature

"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."
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