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He Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
- I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his…
- A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
- Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have…
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't…
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- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle