Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
JOHN STUART MILL
Related Topics
Conservative
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
-
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
JOHN STUART MILL -
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
JOHN STUART MILL -
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
JOHN STUART MILL -
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
JOHN STUART MILL -
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.
JOHN STUART MILL -
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
JOHN STUART MILL -
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.
JOHN STUART MILL -
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
JOHN STUART MILL -
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
JOHN STUART MILL -
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
JOHN 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 MILL -
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
JOHN STUART MILL -
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
JOHN STUART MILL -
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
JOHN STUART MILL -
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
JOHN STUART MILL -
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
JOHN STUART MILL