Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  People, Decision, Foundation

• The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Destiny, Decision

  "The Path of the Law" (1897)

• General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Decision, Intuition, Judgment

• The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Sky, Voice

  "Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen 244 U.S. 205, 222". Dissenting opinion, May 21, 1917.

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