Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Belief
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Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
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Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
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The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Born: March 8, 1841
- Died: March 6, 1935
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States