American - Judge | March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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When in doubt, do it.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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