Walter Lippmann Quote on the Press and Opinion
“The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.”
Walter Lippmann
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Intellectual Poison and Bad Books – Leo Tolstoy
“The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.”
Leo Tolstoi
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Material Comforts vs. Intellectual Wealth
“Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach on Courage and Love
“Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Mark Twain Quote about Government and Money
“We have the best government that money can buy.”
Mark Twain
Mark Twain Quote on Truth and Fiction
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
Mark Twain
Leo Tolstoy on Understanding and Preconceptions
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”
Leo Tolstoi
“Hiding the Truth” – Quote by Leo Tolstoi
“Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote by Mark Twain on Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Conscience
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
Mark Twain
Peter Hayden Dinklage on Vegetarianism and Animals
“I like animals, all animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog – or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.”
Peter Hayden Dinklage