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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
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 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
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? (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn’t give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)