Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A new untruth is better than an old truth. >>

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, con >>

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he >>

Quotations about History and Historians

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without g >>

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one ma >>

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from pas >>

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell