No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
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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.Learned Hand
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Learned Hand
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.
Learned Hand
I submit to you that we must press along. Borrowing from Epictetus, let us say to ourselves Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.
Learned Hand
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.
Learned Hand
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.
Learned Hand
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