Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Art, Pain

  "The Class of '61" (speech), Cambridge, Mass., 28 June 1911

• To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lying, Knowledge, Branches

• Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Ocean, Knowledge

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1872.

• Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Knowledge, Mean, School

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