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Opinions Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living, that free scope…
- Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the…
- On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of…
- The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
- [I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which…
- It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by…
- There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole…
- Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
- All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion…
- 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;…
- Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking…
- 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…
- There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is…
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in…
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? — Joan Baez
- So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou