Learned Hand
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American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge (1872–1961)
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Quotes
- “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.”
- “We like rather to dream of a body of young men as a live thing, as a tree where all the branches are nourished by a single sap, and where each part is meaningless and incomplete except in connection with its fellows. You may lop away the dead branches, you may bend the trunk, you may dig about it and water it; but leave it to assume its own form, do not constrain the peculiar roots, or you will have a crippled, gnarled monster, and no tree.”
- “The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.”
- “It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.”
- “Yet the whole structure of the common law is an obvious denial of this theory; it 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.”
- “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.”
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Albany
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Political party
- Progressive Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- Learned Hand
- birth name
- Billings Learned Hand
- date of birth
- 1872-01-27
- date of death
- 1961-08-18
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- Learned Hand
- member of
- American Law Institute
- name in native language
- Learned Hand
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