The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. Walter Lippmann Enemies, Opposition, Politics, Statesmen You May Also Like A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. By John Hobbes Enemies, Family, Friends The space in a needle’s eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. By Solomon Ibn Gabirol Enemies, Friends Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. By Benjamin Franklin Advice, Enemies, Quotable, Short, Wise The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. By JOHN JAMES INGALLS Politics The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our destruction. By Aesop Enemies, Leadership, Life, Wise A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy. By East African saying Enemies You May Also Like from Walter Lippmann The final test of leadership is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. By Walter Lippmann Great leadership, Inspirational, Leadership, Motivational, Uplifting Many a time have I wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. By Walter Lippmann Belief, Funny, Know yourself, Silence When all think alike, then no one is thinking. By Walter Lippmann Groupthink, Independent, Thinking, Thought It is possible to be a sage in some things and a child in others, to be at once ferocious and retarded, shrewd and foolish, serene and irritable. By Walter Lippmann Comforting, Good, Sad The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. By Walter Lippmann Ideas It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. By Walter Lippmann Intelligent, Meaningful, Wisdom
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. By John Hobbes Enemies, Family, Friends
The space in a needle’s eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. By Solomon Ibn Gabirol Enemies, Friends
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. By Benjamin Franklin Advice, Enemies, Quotable, Short, Wise
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our destruction. By Aesop Enemies, Leadership, Life, Wise
The final test of leadership is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. By Walter Lippmann Great leadership, Inspirational, Leadership, Motivational, Uplifting
Many a time have I wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. By Walter Lippmann Belief, Funny, Know yourself, Silence
When all think alike, then no one is thinking. By Walter Lippmann Groupthink, Independent, Thinking, Thought
It is possible to be a sage in some things and a child in others, to be at once ferocious and retarded, shrewd and foolish, serene and irritable. By Walter Lippmann Comforting, Good, Sad
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. By Walter Lippmann Ideas
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. By Walter Lippmann Intelligent, Meaningful, Wisdom
