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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son’s age.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “A man’s opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “The preacher’s garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one’s own moral aesthetic preferences.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “A person of genius should marry a person of character.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote: “The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.”
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