Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

206 quotes · Justice, Jurist, Author

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Justice, Jurist, Author

Philosophical

“It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.”

Believe Father Son

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Justice, Jurist, Author

Philosophical

“To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.”

Mean Ideas Moral

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Grateful

“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society”

Political Society

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Grateful

“The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.”

Hands Effort

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Philosophical

“The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.”

Ideas Acceptance Competition

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Motivated

“With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.”

Eye Humility Selfish

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Love

“A person of genius should marry a person of character.”

Character Genius

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Philosophical

“Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.”

Men Ancestry

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Grateful

“The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.”

Voice Friendship Work

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Thoughtful

“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.”

Thinking Father Done

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Wise

“Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.”

Religious Attitude

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Philosophical

“The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.”

Modern Ghost

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