The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. More Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. More Quotes From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. sistersiblingyoung As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. growing-upteachinglife On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. gardenrootslife Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. old-manyoungmen The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. has-beenslaw Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. meanknowledgeschool If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. winewiselying The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. spiritualitymodernghost We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. acceptanceexpectations Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. veterans-daywarpeace On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ethossaintlife Systems die; instincts remain. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. agingintuitioninnovation Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ancestorancestrymen We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. tribesrecordstattoo Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. politicalsquaresmen A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. lattermenideas You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. twentiesbirthdaymen Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. donefatherthinking We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. our-wordsrealthinking I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. envyequalitypassion
