Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image