American - Judge | March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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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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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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