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.

Learned Hand

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Reason and emotion Knowledge Emotions

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Learned Hand

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Speeches of Learned Hand

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Judge Lawyer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hand, Learned. "Class-Day Oration." Commencement. 23 June 1893, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Another quote by Learned Hand

This much I think I do know—that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where the spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish.

Learned Hand

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Law and culture Politics is downstream of culture
Speaker
Learned Hand
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hand, Learned. "The Contribution of an Independent Judiciary to Civilization." 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. 21 Nov. 1942, Boston, MA, USA.

Another quote from the 1890s

What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States directly, and to the nations of Europe more remotely. And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Frederick Jackson Turner

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

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American frontier

Author

Frederick Jackson Turner
Source
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Medium
Essay
Genre
Historical literature
Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.

Another quote about Knowledge

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

Metaphysics

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Topic
Curiosity Knowledge Human nature

Author

Aristotle
Source
Metaphysics
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
322 BC 320s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Aristotle. τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά [Those after the physics]. c. 322 BC, bk. 1.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Metaphysics, translated by Hugh Lawson-Tancred. Penguin Classics, 1999, book alpha.