278 Quotations with Holmes.
- 141. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which i ...
- 142. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of t ...
- 143. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction ...
- 144. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
- 145. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I ...
- 146. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally ...
- 147. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himsel ...
- 148. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, ...
- 149. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking acc ...
- 150. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
- 151. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; so ...
- 152. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossili ...
- 153. Eleanor Holmes Norton: The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the righ ...
- 154. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
- 155. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a gre ...
- 156. Sherlock Holmes: The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of ...
- 157. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we ...
- 158. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is ...
- 159. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does n ...
- 160. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great schol ...
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