A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I despise making the most of one’s time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Man’s mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.