Zitate von Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Was von Herzen kommt, hat allemal die Wärme und die Farbe seines Ursprungortes.
Informationen über Oliver Wendell Holmes
Arzt, Professor für Anatomie, Schriftsteller, "Der Tisch-Despot" (USA, 1809 - 1894).
Oliver Wendell Holmes · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Oliver Wendell Holmes wäre heute 214 Jahre, 8 Monate, 4 Tage oder 78.410 Tage alt.
Geboren am 29.08.1809
Gestorben am 07.10.1894
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It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of the son's age.
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It is the folly of the world, constantly, which confounds its wisdom.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at.
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Just as a particular soil wants some one element to fertilize it, just as the body in some conditions has a kind of amine for one special food, so the mind has its wants, which do not always call for what is best, but which know themselves and are as peremptory as the salt-sick sailor's call for a lemon or raw potato.
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Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same sensibility; one is windpower, and the other waterpowered, that is all.
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Lean, hungry, savage anti-everythings.
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
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Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum; but you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly.
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Man wants but little drink below, But wants that little strong.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poisonous by falling upon the wrong mental soil, and what seemed a nightshade in one mind unfolds as a morning-glory in the other.
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Memory is a net: One finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns off all earth's thousand tribes.
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Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
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Most people think dramatically, not quantitatively.
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Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
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Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.
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One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the efforts of every man to get the most he can for his services and that of society disguised under the name of capital to get his services for the least possible return.
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Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.