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Quotes by Felix Frankfurter - (12 quotes)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Aging category:

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Curiosity category:

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Efficiency category:

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Effort category:

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Future category:

Judgment must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Gratitude category:

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Insecurity category:

There can be no security where there is fear. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Questions category:

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Standards category:

It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Tyranny category:

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Wisdom category:

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. (Felix Frankfurter)

Felix Frankfurter - From the Words category:

All our work, our whole life, is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work... Everything depends on our understanding of them. (Felix Frankfurter)