“An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’ generation have got through molding it. We can’t help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you: Remember we really don’t know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.”
Quotes by Lincoln Steffens
“morality is moral only when it is voluntary”
“Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.”
Lincoln SteffensLincoln Steffens was a prominent American investigative journalist and a key figure among the muckrakers of the Progressive Era. His groundbreaking work began with a series of articles titled "Tweed D...