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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

insanity, logic, mind

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

mind, new-ideas

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

There’s nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

humor, misattributed-to-shakespeare, notoriety

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

books, inspirational, read

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

belief, development, evolution, intelligence, misattributed-to-einstein, new-ideas, open-mindedness, thought

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

insanity, life, sanity

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

enthusiasm, faith, life

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

dreams, language, thoughts, words

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

insanity, logic, mind