The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

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...

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Beauty is only skin deep... but dont tell an ugly person that

Beauty is only skin deep... but dont tell an ugly person that

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...

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

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...

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...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

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...

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...

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

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

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

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...

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.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.