Faith Quotes by John Stuart Mill

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

— John Stuart Mill

“One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.”

— John Stuart Mill

“One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.”

— John Stuart Mill

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

— John Stuart Mill

One person with a belief is equal to force of ninety-nine who have only one interest.

— John Stuart Mill

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

— John Stuart Mill

“The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove…

— John Stuart Mill

...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it…

— John Stuart Mill

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world…

— John Stuart Mill

“They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have…

— John Stuart Mill

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite…

— John Stuart Mill

The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world…

— John Stuart Mill

“Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few…

— John Stuart Mill

Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be…

— John Stuart Mill

It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free…

— John Stuart Mill

“If there are any persons who contest a received opinion, or who will do so if law or opinion will let them,…

— John Stuart Mill

It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without…

— John Stuart Mill

“Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that…

— John Stuart Mill

We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension…

— John Stuart Mill

... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the…

— John Stuart Mill