Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."

"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."

"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."