It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
Lincoln SteffensIn all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
Lincoln SteffensWe need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
Lincoln Steffens