Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.

Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

The best servant does his work unseen.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.

I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.

I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.

Everyone still wants to see [Floyd] Mayweather and [Manny] Pacquaio fight. When the talks start though, it always seem like it is all about Mayweather, and I think the people hate that.

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.