• We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator 1889-1974
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. understanding
2. introspection
3. considerably
4. inwardness
5. neighbors
6. ourselves

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves. by : Walter Lippmann

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