4 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes about thinking
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
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