The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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...

Life is a great bundle of little things.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

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...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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

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

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

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...

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man...

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man...

When in doubt, do it.

When in doubt, do it.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

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...

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that...

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that...

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned...

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned...

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about...

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about...