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The quotations of

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

American poet and physician

1809–1894

50 quotes, most often on Thinking, Talking and Truth & Lies.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
- Thinking
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Thinking
Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 6
- Talking
- Thinking
I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), Ch. 1
- Talking
- Thinking
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 2
- Thinking
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 1
- Ideas
- Thinking

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