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Letter "O" » Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
«Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
sprung, transplant, transplanted, transplanting, transplants
«Beware how you take away hope from any human being.»
«Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
dimensions, New Idea, regained, regaining, regains, stretched
«You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
chuckle, chuckles, eighty, sixty, twenty-four
«This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
court, courted, courting, Court of, Court of Justice, court of law, Law and Justice, This is a, young man
«A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.»
«Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
bath, bath water, body of water, seasons, The Bath, The Water, week
«We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.»
«It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
investigation, investigations, obscure
«The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
bigot, bigots, contract, contracted, contracting, on it, pupil, shine, Shine On, The Eye
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