Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Tags: dog common-law
A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.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.Tags: truth words thinking reality thought facts semantics
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