What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
JOHN STUART MILL
Language is the light of the mind.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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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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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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