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Quote DB :: Authors :: Oliver Wendell Holmes :: View Quote View Quote "The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Oliver Wendell Holmes Listed in: Education, Facts Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 3.75  Rate Quote 4 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 Education, Facts "Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism." "For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are." "The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get." "There are no facts, only interpretations." "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."

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