“I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
“We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
“Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
“Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
“A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
“The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history. History must be a part of the study, because… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
“But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share
