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"School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives."
"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."
"The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance."
"I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever"."
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
"Explain it to me."But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood., If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right."
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side."
"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
Explore more quotes by Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
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