One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of...

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one,...

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one,...

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular...

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular...

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a...

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a...

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.