I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

Quote by Louis D Brandeis

Topics: Attitude Quotes

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be...

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be...

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law...

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law...

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said...

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said...

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well...

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well...

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They...

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They...

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present,...

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present,...

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some...

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some...

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how...

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how...

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness...

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness...

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -...

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and...

The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and...