"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Topic(s): Experience More From Oliver Wendell Holmes "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." "Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?" "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer." More In Experience "We really haven’t had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don’t know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario."― Ron Chernow "The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."― Helen Keller "There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."― George Washington