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A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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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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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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For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
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In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.
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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
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[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty.
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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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Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.
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The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
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To know is not less than to feel.
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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.
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