Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
chief frame general ideas man worth
The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is worth a damn.
ideas mind original stretched
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
hero thinking ideas
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
train-of-thought ideas roots
Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.
book reading ideas
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.
real ideas wind
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
ideas mediocrity publicity
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
stupid men ideas
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
men ideas mind
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
ideas imagination scope
To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas
men ideas latter
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
law ideas style
The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.
mean ideas moral
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
acceptance ideas competition
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.