56 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- 1. A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
- 2. A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never reurn to it's original dimensions.
- 3. A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
- 4. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
- 5. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.
- 6. A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command ...
- 7. A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
- 8. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary ...
- 9. Carve every word before you let it fall.
- 10. Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of ...
- 11. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect ...
- 12. For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as w ...
- 13. I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humil ...
- 14. I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities ...
- 15. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are movi ...
- 16. I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no ge ...
- 17. I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
- 18. I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passio ...
- 19. If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
- 20. It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to ...
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