223 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.