Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIn the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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