Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872's Quote - We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe;

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 the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

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