Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote link. Other quotes about: experience life: "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hours: "Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old first time man person: "A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never person mind: "A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live time man life: "As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time living: "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope human: "Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
Quote link.: "Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend person friends: "Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them."
Quote link.: "Every calling is great when greatly pursued."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find world: "I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words: "If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man hate fact: "I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live house person sin single: "It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom: "It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something life living: "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."
Quote link.: "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."
Quote link. Other quotes about: run grow soul: "Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live time man: "Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Quote link.: "Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: woman: "Man has his will - but woman has her way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little doctors: "No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother human man child soul: "No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old: "Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never mind: "One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth future: "Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class something: "People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth world children honest child: "Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work truth: "Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man: "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
Quote link.: "Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find music soul: "Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."
Quote link.: "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books men book young: "The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Quote link.: "The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man: "The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light mind: "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
Quote link.: "The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old friend day: "There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth nothing: "There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right: "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man: "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world look: "The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope old young: "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man: "To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."
Quote link.: "We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk find think woman: "When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman"
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope friendship friend mother love friends: "Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

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