"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to…" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely…
— Isaac Asimov
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a…
— Jane Austen
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
— Richard Bach
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
— Abu Bakr
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
— James A. Baldwin
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies…
— Antonio Banderas
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