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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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A name that surfaces again and again in collections of great quotes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. clearly understood the power of language. Their thinking spans from Faith to Experience, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Browse 18 quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. that cover ground from Faith, Experience, Education, Truth, and Success. One quote that captures their voice: "A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles."

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Experience

All Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Truth

“Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Age

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Experience

“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Education

“Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Government

“A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Money

“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Friendship

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Experience

“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Education

“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Faith

“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Equality

“The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Power

“The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Faith

“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Legal

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Hope