Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.
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.
Law
Experience
Life
Judicial
Logic
Court
More quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To know is not less than to feel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.
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.
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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, Jr.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
