William Dunbar Quotes

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

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.

If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.

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

I don't know what I'm going to do with my law degree. Hopefully I'll get the law degree - that's the first step.

I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country (Italy). Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

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.

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

I went to law school after college.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.