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 I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves. By Roy Cohn Enemies When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping. By Maria Callas Enemies 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 Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. By Benjamin Franklin Advice, Enemies, Quotable, Short, Wise Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. By Nikita Khrushchev Politics Even a paranoid has some real enemies. By Henry A. Kissinger Enemies You May Also Like from Walter Lippmann When all think alike, then no one is thinking. By Walter Lippmann Groupthink, Independent, Thinking, Thought It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. By Walter Lippmann Intelligent, Meaningful, Wisdom The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. By Walter Lippmann Ideas Many a time have I wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. By Walter Lippmann Belief, Funny, Know yourself, Silence 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 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
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves. By Roy Cohn Enemies
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
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. By Benjamin Franklin Advice, Enemies, Quotable, Short, Wise
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. By Nikita Khrushchev Politics
When all think alike, then no one is thinking. By Walter Lippmann Groupthink, Independent, Thinking, Thought
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. By Walter Lippmann Intelligent, Meaningful, Wisdom
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. By Walter Lippmann Ideas
Many a time have I wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. By Walter Lippmann Belief, Funny, Know yourself, Silence
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
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