Experience Quote by Diane S. Sykes

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

— Roscoe Pound

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become.

— Anonymous

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but…

— Felix Frankfurter

Being a lawyer, it's like holding a key card to a parallel dimension of rule sets in the world, and it's lovely to make…

— Lisa Joy

“the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.”

— James A. Michener

“Law is neither a divine revelation nor a scientific discovery. It is a wholly human creation that includes the contribution of those who claim…

— Alain Supiot

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S.…

— Niall Ferguson

The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any…

— Emma Goldman

“1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational…

— The Catholic Church

“as I begIn my journey away from the law life, you should know, or already have figured out, that I think the law looms…

— Mark Shaiken