"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes has 166 quotes on this site.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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More Controversy Quotes
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
— Julian Assange
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who…
— Samuel Butler
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The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us…
— Dick Cheney
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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too,…
— Tertullian
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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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