“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 10

About Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

1809 – 1894

American physician, poet and essayist, author of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table".

“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.”

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

“Deal with him as a truant, if you will, but claim him, keep him, call him brother still!”

“What is truth but to live for an idea?”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living.”

“Human happiness consists in living according to reason.”

“My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.”