As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
JOHN STUART MILLAs often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
JOHN STUART MILLThe object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
JOHN STUART MILLEvery great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
JOHN STUART MILLThe 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 MILLSolitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
JOHN STUART MILLA profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
JOHN STUART MILLThose only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
JOHN STUART MILLThe despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
JOHN STUART MILLIn proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
JOHN STUART MILLLanguage is the light of the mind.
JOHN STUART MILLAll that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
JOHN STUART MILLThe pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
JOHN STUART MILLTo 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.
JOHN STUART MILLThe love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
JOHN STUART MILLThere are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
JOHN STUART MILLIn this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
JOHN STUART MILL