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Learned Hand 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»
«Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.»
Author: Learned Hand
«We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.»
Author: Learned Hand
«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: Learned Hand
«A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.»
Author: Learned Hand
«safeguard of free government.»
Author: Learned Hand
«I remember he loved the patent cases, ... He used to get the invention involved in the case, take it apart and put it together again. He enjoyed seeing how the apparatus worked. . . . He also enjoyed the admiralty cases. He loved to get models of ships and recreate the circumstances of a collision.»
Author: Learned Hand
«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: Learned Hand

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