216 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow
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In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become.
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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
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It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all
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Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide -that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -are alike forbidden.
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