“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Although, however, Hobbes's theory of Predication, according to the well-known remark of Leibnitz, and the avowal of Hobbes himself, 32 renders truth… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice or… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is, that all the argument is on one side. There are no objections, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker his first duty is to follow his… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary… — 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
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