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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#mad #man #often #saves #stupidity

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

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#often #original #though #thought #times

Don't be "consistent" but be simple true. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#simple #true

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#consistent #contradict #honestly #mean #more

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

There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise. ↗

— Francis de Sales

#intentions #religion #will #religion

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#simply #true

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. ↗

— John Holt

#attention #back #before #bring #child