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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."
By Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."
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"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
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"The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done."
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"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
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"Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view."
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"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
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"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
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"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."
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"We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them."
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"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."
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"To know is not less than to feel."
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"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
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"A page of history is worth a pound of logic."
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"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."
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"Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge."
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
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"To live is to function. That is all there is in living."
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"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
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"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving."
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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
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