A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing...

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing...

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should...

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should...

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that...

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that...

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is...

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is...

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in...

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in...

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light...

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light...

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our...

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our...

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.