Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr quotes

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

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

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

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

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

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

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

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

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

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.