Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

  • Education
  • Facts

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

  Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Art
  • Life & Death

• Death tugs at my ear and says: “Live, I am coming.”

  • Life & Death

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy