"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
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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 Another Mind Quotes
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart.
— Unknown Author
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When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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We live with many thoughts, emotions, and habits, but at the same time we have other eyes, another mind capable…
— Ilchi Lee
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The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.
— Eula Biss
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
— Arnold Bennett
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Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of…
— Mary Astell
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When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
— Dario Argento
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A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some…
— Sol LeWitt
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
— James Russell Lowell
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Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their…
— Diane Setterfield
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A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it?…
— Charles de Lint
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