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Letter "O" » Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
superlative, superlatives
«Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
outgrow, outgrowing, outgrown, outgrows
«Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.»
«Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.»
«Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.»
«Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
get at, iconoclasm, rough
«If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
adjusted, human error, implemented, implementing, implements, suggested
«The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
institutions
«Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
The Resurrection
«Simple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
quick, simple People
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