The 16+ Henry R. Luce Quotes

I Urge Each Of You To Think Seriously About The Vision Dr. Daniel Puts Forth And Think About What You Can Do To Make It Happen.

Of Necessity, We Made The Discovery That It Is Easier To Turn Poets Into Business Journalists Than To Turn Bookkeepers Into Writers.

There Are Men Who Can Write Poetry, And There Are Men Who Can Read Balance Sheets. The Men Who Can Read Balance Sheets Cannot Write.

Journalism Is The Art Of Collecting Varying Kinds Of Information (commonly Called News) Which A Few People Possess And Of Transmitting It To A Much Larger Number Of People Who Are Supposed To Desire To Share It.

I Am All For Titillating Trivialities. I Am All For The Epic Touch. I Could Almost Say That Everything In Time, Should Be Either Titillating Or Epic Or Starkly, Supercurtly Factual.

To See, And To Show, Is The Mission Now Undertaken By Life.

I Suggest That What We Want To Do Is Not To Leave To Posterity A Great Institution, But To Leave Behind A Great Tradition Of Journalism Ably Practiced In Our Time.

Show Me A Man Who Claims He Is Objective And I'll Show You A Man With Illusions.

Not Much Longer Shall We Have Time For Reading Lessons Of The Past. An Inexorable Present Calls Us To The Defense Of A Great Future.

It's Easier To Teach A Poet How To Read A Balance Sheet Than It Is To Teach An Accountant How To Write.

Publishing Is A Business, But Journalism Never Was And Is Not Essentially A Business. Nor Is It A Profession.

The World Of The 20th Century, If It Is To Come To Life In Any Viability Of Health And Vigor, Must Be To A Significant Degree An American Century.