Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happ >>

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not th >>

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned. >>

Quotations about Studying

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to fi >>

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a pe >>

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, shoul >>

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell