Psychology Quotes by John Stuart Mill

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

— John Stuart Mill

Language is the light of the mind

— John Stuart Mill

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

— John Stuart Mill

“Those only are happy … who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, "a crisis in my…

— John Stuart Mill

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

— John Stuart Mill

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's…

— John Stuart Mill

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

— John Stuart Mill

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small…

— John Stuart Mill

“There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.”

— John Stuart Mill

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

— John Stuart Mill

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

— 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…

— John Stuart Mill

The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to…

— John Stuart Mill

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In…

— John Stuart Mill

...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but…

— John Stuart Mill

Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points…

— John Stuart Mill

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part…

— John Stuart Mill

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the…

— John Stuart Mill

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable…

— John Stuart Mill

“Yet the same gradual decay to which, after a certain age, all the language of psychology seems liable, has been at work…

— John Stuart Mill

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least…

— John Stuart Mill

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure…

— John Stuart Mill

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,…

— John Stuart Mill

“Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very…

— John Stuart Mill

“it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or…

— 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

The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise…

— John Stuart Mill

“Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness…

— John Stuart Mill

“[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or…

— John Stuart Mill

“In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept…

— John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

— John Stuart Mill

“...over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".”

— John Stuart Mill

“when we say of any one that he is generous. The word generosity expresses a certain state of mind, but being a…

— John Stuart Mill

All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness,…

— John Stuart Mill

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of…

— John Stuart Mill

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing…

— John Stuart Mill

“Where there is a tacit convention that principles are not to be disputed; where the discussion of the greatest questions which can…

— John Stuart Mill

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly…

— 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

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