56 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- 21. It is the province of knowledge to speak
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- 22. Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
- 23. Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have ...
- 24. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
- 25. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- 26. Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our ne ...
- 27. Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowmen ...
- 28. On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself ...
- 29. Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our vi ...
- 30. People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
- 31. Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
- 32. Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
- 33. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- 34. The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
- 35. The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is worth a damn.
- 36. The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
- 37. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
- 38. The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
- 39. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.
- 40. The human race is divided into two classes--those who go ahead and do something and those who sit st ...
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