Learned Hand Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

• 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.

  Learned Hand

  Running, Past, Data

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

  Learned Hand

  Support, Doubt, Devil

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

  Learned Hand

  Political, Support, Doubt

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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