"It is the province of knowledge to speak,……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
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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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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
— Theodor Adorno
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
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