I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
