Learned Hand Life Quotations

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

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.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.