WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 14 May 2026 03:20:32 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg suggestibility – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. -- Lecture (1842), “Homœopathy and Its Kindred Delusions,” Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/78047/ https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/78047/#respond Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:39:40 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78047 So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial faith.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Lecture (1842), “Homœopathy and Its Kindred Delusions,” Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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