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Errors Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope…
- The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
- The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;…
- Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those…
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