Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediately at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and without parade as solid work as one can when one is occupied, one makes the best contribution possible to one's state."
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"Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediately at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and without parade as solid work as one can when one is occupied, one makes the best contribution possible to one's state."
"أقضي معظم وقتي في إنجاز العمل الماثل أمامي بأفضل ما أستطيع. ويأمل المرء أنه بالقيام بهدوء ودون تفاخر بأكثر الأعمال إتقانًا قدر الإمكان حين يكون مشغولًا، فإنه يقدم بذلك أفضل إسهام ممكن لدولته."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"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."
"إن كان هناك مبدأ دستوري يستدعي التمسك به بإلحاح يفوق أي مبدأ آخر، فهو مبدأ حرية الفكر؛ لا حرية الفكر لمن يوافقوننا الرأي، بل حرية الفكر الذي نكرهه."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
"المحامون يقضون وقتًا طويلاً في نفث الدخان."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
"الحياة رسم لوحة، لا حل مسألة."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."
"أرى أننا في هذا الزمان أحوج إلى تعليم البديهيات منه إلى التنقيب في الغوامض."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles."
"المرء غالبًا ما يكون أشد حرصًا على ماله منه على مبادئه."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."
"أعظم فعل إيمان هو حين يدرك المرء أنه ليس إلهاً."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."
"لو دنا أجلي، لكانت وصيتي: آمنوا واس"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
"العقل الذي يتسع لتجربة جديدة، لا يعود أبدًا إلى أبعاده القديمة."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
"نصيحة الشيوخ للشباب غالبًا ما تكون وهمية كقائمة أفضل مائة كتاب."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live."
"جوهر التعليم الفكري ليس في اكتساب الحقائق، بل في إحياء هذه الحقائق."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"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."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why endure long months of pain in preparation of a fierce half hour, or even six minutes, that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all its costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph - or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give all the blood in his body to win the one, will he not spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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