Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes - 9quotes.com

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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When in doubt, do it.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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