Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: mind learning knowledge 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 “knowledge” The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. —Daniel Webster More about this quote Tags: reality knowledge world appearance deception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Facts are the enemy of truth. —Miguel de Cervantes More about this quote Tags: truth reality knowledge facts metaphor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: love knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love More about this quote Tags: life knowledge romance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. —Neil Gaiman More about this quote Tags: understanding power knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. —Daniel Webster More about this quote Tags: reality knowledge world appearance deception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Facts are the enemy of truth. —Miguel de Cervantes More about this quote Tags: truth reality knowledge facts metaphor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: love knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love More about this quote Tags: life knowledge romance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. —Neil Gaiman More about this quote Tags: understanding power knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email