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Results of search for Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - Page 1 of 5 Showing results 1 to 10 of 41 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

Results from Classic Quotes:

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), Speech, May 30, 1884
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

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Results of search for Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - Page 1 of 5 Showing results 1 to 10 of 41 total quotations found.

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