Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be… — 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
But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. — 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
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