Ben Carson Quotes

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

I want to study law.

I'm a student of the law.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I don't know why.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

I was always interested in law at school; it was a great outlet to argue but not make anyone angry!

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Law school! A man must read law in the court house.

Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.

I am a Yale Law School graduate.

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.

When I applied to law school, I wrote on my application that I wanted to do two things. One was to solve antitrust law's irregularities and problems, and the second was to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict.

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

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

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

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.