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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1891
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.: Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.: Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.

Results from Cole's Quotables:

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

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