John Stuart Mill on certain
John Stuart Mill98 quotes“To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill 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.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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