If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
Meaning of the quote
Making mistakes is how we learn. If you make a mistake with your thinking, but not with your feelings, don't be too hard on yourself. Mistakes are a normal part of the learning process.
About Earl Warren
Earl Warren, a renowned American lawyer, politician, and jurist, served as the 30th governor of California and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States. He presided over a revolutionary era in American constitutional jurisprudence, leading landmark cases that transformed criminal procedure, voting rights, and civil liberties.
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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That’s what is important.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They’re first in with their fees and first out when there’s trouble.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along – not the Congress nor the courts.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969