Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Knowledge

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  • Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

  • To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

  • Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

    "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1872.
  • Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

    "The Class of '61" (speech), Cambridge, Mass., 28 June 1911
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  • Born: March 8, 1841
  • Died: March 6, 1935
  • Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States