56 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- 41. The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make fac ...
- 42. The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will c ...
- 43. The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before ...
- 44. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- 45. The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
- 46. The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is t ...
- 47. To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
- 48. To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- 49. To know is not less than to feel.
- 50. To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
- 51. To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
- 52. Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day l ...
- 53. We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, b ...
- 54. We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- 55. When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look ...
- 56. You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A m ...
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