Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
American physician, poet and essayist, 1809-1894
9 quotes.
Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- How many men live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
- 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.
- I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
- Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.
- The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.