When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
JOHN STUART MILLThe object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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