A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions. — 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 Image
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevitable, and that slavery had lasted long enough. But we equally believed that those who stood against us held just as sacred conviction that were… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
