The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell...

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell...

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

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.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

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...

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

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

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

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means...

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means...

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...

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my...

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my...

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others,...

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others,...