Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes



Best Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.”

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

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“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”


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