Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quotes
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."
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"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
"The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done."
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
"Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view."
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
"It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."