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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the son of writer, educator, poet, and doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes, was born on March 8, 1841, in Boston, Massachusetts. Holmes Jr. fought on the Union side in the American Civil War for three years. In 1864, he began attending Harvard Law School, and later taught as a professor. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Holmes to the U.S. Supreme Court. Holmes retired in 1931, at the age of 91. He died on March 6, 1935, in Washington, D.C.
“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”
“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.”
“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn’t pass it around. Wouldn’t be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t say 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.”
“We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.”
“To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”
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- - - - - - -“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.”
“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn’t pass it around. Wouldn’t be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t say 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.”
“We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.”
“To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”