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Thinking Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
- I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to…
- Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent…
- For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
- Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and…
- I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with…
- We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are…
- Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and…
- I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,…
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