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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
JOHN STUART MILL

Activity Choice Discrimination Faculty Human Mental
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
JOHN STUART MILL

Act Exercise Ourselves Right Way
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
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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Action Himself Individual Person
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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Conclusion Cultivation Draw Narrow Study
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
JOHN STUART MILL

Establishment Moral Opinion Politics Revolution
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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Conservatism Fact Myself Question Stupidity Thinking
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.
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Assumption Difference Greatness Opinion Purpose
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Conviction Feeling Man Raise
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Action Existence People Value
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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Genius Growth Minority Person Preserve Small
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
JOHN STUART MILL

Affair Concern Freedom Himself Person
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Finding Freedom Liberty Lying Right
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
JOHN STUART MILL

Human Lawyer Object University
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 MILL

Adverse Chance Opinion Subject Supply Truth

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