The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Education
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. Freedom
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Education
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. Death
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Learning
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Success
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. Respect
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Faith
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Age
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. Equality
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Best
