William Dunbar Quotes

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was a good lawyer.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.

Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!

I'm clearly not a major legal genius.

Much of the work legal executives do has to be supervised by a solicitor, irrespective of the experience or ability of the individual. In practice, this is a major disincentive to legal executives setting up their own high street practices. Even when they can do the work, they are still tied to solicitors.

I'm a sporting professional; I don't have a great understanding of tax and legal matters.

I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued soothsayer when it came to dispensing opinions to my friends about their life choices or relationships.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.