Philosophy Quote by Carl Sagan

'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion…

— Carl Sagan

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing…

— John Stuart Mill

“Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be reached by…

— Thomas Paine

“There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in…

— Anton Chekhov

“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to…

— John Stuart Mill

“Sincerity is often mistaken for a truth, when it fact it may have no resemblance to truth whatsoever. Sometimes we do make the mistake,…

— Patrick Davis

“the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions…

— John Stuart Mill

It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for…

— Carl Jung

“People prefer opinions to truth. They try to bend the world to fit their assumptions, instead of changing their assumptions to fit the world.…

— Elizabeth C. Mock

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of…

— John Stuart Mill

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Holding wrong opinions in one’s head and making bad decisions based on them instead of having thoughtful disagreements is one of the greatest tragedies…

— Ray Dalio