Learned Hand Quotes


32 quotes:

"Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Women Quotes Rest Quotes
"While I should be the last to say that the making of a profit was not in itself a pleasure, I hope I should also be one of those to agree that there were other pleasures than making a profit"
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Pleasure Quotes
"A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Man Quotes
"(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work"
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Law Quotes
"The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man"
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Law Quotes
"They taught me, not by precept, but by example, that nothing is more commendable, and more fair, than that a man should lay aside all else, and seek truth; not to preach what he might find; and surely not to try to make his views prevail; but, like Lessing, to find his satisfaction in the search itself."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Example Quotes
"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice"
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Democracy Quotes
"What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart"
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Conviction Quotes
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it"
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Constitution Quotes
"With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided that appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this; it is the mark of the most distinguished talent."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: Confidence Quotes
"What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes
"Thou shalt not ration justice."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes
"The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes
"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes
"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes
"It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes
"I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes
"No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture."
Author: Hand Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes Devil Quotes

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