Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty infinite civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Oliver Wendell Holmes Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: trouble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In youth we learn; in age we understand. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: men and women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: trouble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In youth we learn; in age we understand. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: men and women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “civilization” In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: intelligence government civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In the conflict between Israelis and Arabs you have wounded civilizations — the Arabs have been wounded in their dealings with the West, and an insecure Jewish people have gone through terrible disasters and traumas. There is no end to the Jewish quest for security, and there is no end for the Arab quest for redress and dignity. It is very difficult to reconcile the two. —Itamar Rabinovich More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. —Will Durant More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: intelligence government civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the conflict between Israelis and Arabs you have wounded civilizations — the Arabs have been wounded in their dealings with the West, and an insecure Jewish people have gone through terrible disasters and traumas. There is no end to the Jewish quest for security, and there is no end for the Arab quest for redress and dignity. It is very difficult to reconcile the two. —Itamar Rabinovich More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. —Will Durant More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email