The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of... by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | We Heart Quotes

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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Other quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Truth May Will

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Fathers

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Worth End Life

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Word

Carve every word before you let it fall.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

May Man

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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