Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Knowing

• It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Growing
  • Process

• When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Singing

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Loser

• Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Alone

• We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • Kids
  • American

• With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Inspire

• I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Life
  • Dying

• Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Old

• Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • People
  • Life
  • Question

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Me
  • Humble
  • Capacity

• I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Think
  • Choices
  • Big

• There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • History
  • Being
  • Extent

• This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Different
  • Result
  • Using

• There's men and women out there protecting and serving, doing it the right way, that aren't talked about.

  

  John David Washington
  • Men
  • Women

• I always prefer to end a show where you're feeling creatively on top.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Feeling

• I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Art
  • Weird
  • Kid

• Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.

  

  Mabel Osgood Wright
  • Good
  • She
  • Nature

• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Science
  • Man