Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late

Quote by Felix Frankfurter

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason,...

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason,...

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the...

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the...

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived...

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived...

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may...

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may...

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the...

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the...

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the...

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the...

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said...

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said...

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday...

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday...

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life...

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life...

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human...

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human...

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have...

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have...

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron...

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron...

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so...

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so...

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in...