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

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...

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

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...

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

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

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those...

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those...

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that...

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that...

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

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.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust

A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original...

A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original...

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

And then we went to the end of worlds time with our thoughts burdened by...

And then we went to the end of worlds time with our thoughts burdened by...

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love...

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love...

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional...

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional...