Oliver Wendell Holmes
6 quotes.
Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
- Don't be "consistent," but be simply true.
- Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
- It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.