Freethinker Quote by Augustus William Hare Download Open image “A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.” — Augustus William Hare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freethinker Inspirational Lawyer Short Thinking
Only lawyers would refer to something as a brief that takes hours/days/weeks to write and is 30 pages long. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed. — Mark Davis Copy Share Image
A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings. — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants,… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin? — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The First Human (Sonnet 2632) Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't. My time is born of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what we carve… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
