The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
JOHN STUART MILL
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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The 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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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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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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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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