Oliver Wendell Holmes

Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

These quotes are often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes were said or written by someone else.

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Art
  • Life & Death

• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • America
  • Thinking

• It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Talking

• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Writing

• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Science

• A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Thinking

• Eloquence may set fire to reason.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Talking

• The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Age
  • Reading