What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him.... The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.


Public Opinion (1922), ch. 1, The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads

Walter Lippmann Quotes

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him.... The way in which the world is...

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him.... The way in which the world is...

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him.... The way in which the world is...

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him.... The way in which the world is...