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There are 108 quotes for the author Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quotations 41 to 60 of 108 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone

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