Learned Hand Quotes
Top 44 wise famous quotes and sayings by Learned Hand
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Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ...
Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.
There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.
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.
The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
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 emotions.
nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.
Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.
In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.