Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
roots joy ends
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.
law logic court
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
law justice court
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
law sawdust ifs
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
powerful thinking people
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 bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
moving giving world
Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.
imbeciles three generations
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
expression ideas differences
Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.
inspirational wise travel
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
life character done
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
ideas mind original stretched
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
artist colors employ glorify handling himself man marble materials thoughts verse works
An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling
certainty generally human longing
The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
men play political
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.