We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Quote by Oliver Wendell Jr. Holmes
More Quotes By Oliver Wendell Jr. Holmes
-
-
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
-
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
-
-
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
-
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.