A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
Certitude is not the test of certainty.
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
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