Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.”

“Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.”

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.”

“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.”

“Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.”

“I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.”

“People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.”

“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.”

“Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.”

“The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.”