Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Experience, Mind, Old

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nose, Begins, Ends

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, Jr.

Friendship, Morning, Friend

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Time, May, Thought

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Money, Principles, Careful

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life, End, Enough

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Mind, Light, Eye

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life, Time, Passion

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Moving, Greatest, Direction

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Equality, Respect, Envy

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Two, Tell, Hours

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Hope, Human, Away

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Test, Certainty, Certitude

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life, Experience, Moment

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Education, Time, Seems

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Mind, Idea, Goes

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.

May, Before, After

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Education, Before, Child

Carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Before, Word, Fall

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Legal, Time, Great

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Power, Powerful, Prize

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.

Men, Idea, Worth

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

True, Simply, Consistent

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, Jr.

Past, Him, Thought

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life, Time, Making

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: March 8, 1841

Died: March 6, 1935

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