Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States January–February 1930. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" opinion for a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth8 March 1841
CountryUnited States of America
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.
To know is not less than to feel.
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges.