Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Thinkers

Acting is tied to courage, the courage to act instead of react.

An Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

The Bigot's mind is like the pupil of the eye - the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

Chicago is rough-sounding to the maker of verse. One comfort we have cincinnati sounds worse.

The Child is responsible for pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world.

Contradiction is less frequently found in people who honestly mean to be true than in those who try to be 'consistent'.

Education is not about the acquisition of facts, but of learning how to make facts live.

Education should begin for a child at least one hundred years before he is born.

Free speech is endowed with the ability to bring about truth in that it enables that the ultimate good to be reached by free trade and ultimate competition in the marketplace of ideas.

Friendship is revealing of (and productive of) different facets of our person. Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Honesty is illicited from someone most effectively by making them mad.