Documents Quote by Learned Hand Download Open image “There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.” — Learned Hand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Documents Inspirational Love Way
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue. — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume that my… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
'I beseech ye . . . , think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... . — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image
There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
