There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew… — 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 beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world… — 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
