Certainty Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Thus, though there is a psychological tendency of accepting the judge’s verdict and reasoning as expert reasoning and tinge of finality adorned to his discretely…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

— John Rawls

“Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing…

— John Stuart Mill

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

“There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. From that, the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The judiciary is peopled by judges who are human, and being human, they are occasionally motivated by considerations other than an objective view of…

— Prashant Bhushan

A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political…

— Orrin Hatch

“I have long held that judicial restraint, expressed through a well-reasoned rejection, is at times the most efficient form of justice; preserving both time…

— Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Professional & Author

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction…

— Anonymous

Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or she must…

— Herb Kohl