Oliver Wendell Holmes Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Doubt Sayings
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beginning Sayings
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
In the beginning was the Word.
- John 1:1
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Let us always meet each other with a smile,
for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Another Sayings
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
My joy is the golden sunset
giving thanks for another day.
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Just another cold, misty morning inviting,
"want to go again?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
We are each of us angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of us spend our lives as if
we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin
It takes two to speak the truth:
one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
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