Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
Judge
Jurist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
University Teacher
Boston
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver W. Holmes
Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Holmes
Oliver Wendell
Jr.
Oliver Wendell
Jr. Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jr
Oliver Holmes
Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jr.
Sex
Principles
Doubt
Firsts
Doubted
First
Civilized
Men
Romance
Love
Humility
Life
Mark
More quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before they always did, they always will and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Certitude is not the test of certainty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
