The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 2 Share Now -
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 3 Share Now -
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 5 Share Now -
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 6 Share Now -
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 7 Share Now -
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 8 Share Now -
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 9 Share Now -
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 10 Share Now -
