Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

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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.

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

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

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Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.

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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

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