 The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
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Category Archives: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes – Habits are crutches in old age
| Habits are the crutches of old age: by the aid of these we manage to hobble along after the mental joints are stiff and the muscles rheumatic…when every act of self determination costs an effort and a pang.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes – I wanted to understand what is happening today
| When I wanted to understand what is happening today, I try to decide what will happen tomorrow; I look back, a page of history is worth a volume of logic.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes – Many ideas grow better when transplanted
| Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes – We must sail; do not drift
| I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: to reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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