Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. >>

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. >>

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural >>

Quotations about Ideas

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They >>

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imaginat >>

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but >>

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell