Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
I despise making the most of one’s time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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.
When in doubt, do it.
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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.
Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
