The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Quotesmemo.com

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

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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.

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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!

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Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

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