10 thought-provoking quotes by oliver wendell holmes jr.
- The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
- Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
- I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
- A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
- The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.
- Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
- The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
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