#iv

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#listen #privilege #province #speak #wisdom

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#education #facts #how #intellectual #learning

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#being #his #life #lived #man

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#enough #had #had enough #itself #life

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#citizenship #dual #happens #i #just

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#being #being judged #judged #life #lived

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. ↗

— Tom Holt

#else #incentive #inefficient #knows #lunchtime

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#attitude #capable #determines #doing #how