Creative Quotations from "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr." (1841-1935)

Creative Quotations from . . .

"Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr."
(1841-1935) born on Mar 08

US jurist. "He was called "The Great Dissenter" ; He often disagreed with the conservative majority."

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We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

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

"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R:	""Gitlow vs. New York," 1924."
A:	"In "Instant Quotation Dictionary," by Donald O. Bolander, 1979."
N:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K:	"Reply to a reporter's question on his 90th birthday, 8 Mar 1931."