Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes

Beware how you take away hope from another human being

He wrote: "A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way." Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true.

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, 'The medicines of the soul.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.

I'm living in a world of goldfish.

No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness.

Living was a sad and empty thing

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

It should be considered right to live and enjoy living. To be well, happy, and to express freedom, is to be in accord with Divine Law and Wisdom.

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.

There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.

I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .

Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.

The more power one gives to his thought--the more completely he believes that his thought has power--the more power will it have.

I ran out the door but it was to late..... i felt a sharp pain in my back as i heard the gun shoot

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.

Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.

People do not have to be dreary to be good.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

At Christmas, all roads lead home.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows.

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

I am a practitioner of the science of deduction, of using the known facts in a case to unveil the unknown.’ - Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders

There should not be any sense of hurry or worry about this, just a calm, peaceful sense of reality. Let the Law work though, and express Itself in, the experience.

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.