Zitate von Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Die größte Glaubenstat ist, wenn ein Mann beschließt, nicht Gott zu sein.
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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Weitere 96 Zitate von Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Since life is action and passion, a man must share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Systems die-instincts remain.
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Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring our their music.
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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
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The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.
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The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
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The history of most countries has been that of majorities-mounted majorities, clad in iron, armed with death, treading down the ten-fold more numerous minorities.
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The longing for certainty and repose is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
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The Ultimate Good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas - the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
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There are a good many real miseries in life that one cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.
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There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict; their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. While we are permitted to scorn nothing but indifference, and do not pretend to undervalue the worldly rewards of ambition, we have seen with our own eyes, beyond and above the gold fields, the snowy heights of honor, and it is for us to bear the report to those who come after us.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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To brag little, to lose well, to crow gently if in luck, to pay up, to own up, to shut up if beaten, are the virtues of a sportingman.
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To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.