Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Amen of nature is always a flower. >>

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebo >>

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

Quotations about Ideals and Idealism

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. >>

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. >>

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glan >>

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell