Oliver Wendell Holmes Common Quotations

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

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

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

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