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Quote DB :: Authors :: Oliver Wendell Holmes :: View Quote View Quote "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Oliver Wendell Holmes Listed in: Thinking Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.9  Rate Quote 10 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "Old age is fifteen years older than I am." "When in doubt, do it." "The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power." Top 5 quotes from Thinking "There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord." "I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses." "What once was thought can never be unthought." "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it." "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."

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