Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856–1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia, who raised him in a secular home. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the law school’s history.
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
—Louis Brandeis
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
—Louis Brandeis
Topics: Optimism, Determination, Discovery, Invention
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