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Subjects Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are…
- Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion…
- The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
- When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good…
- Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides.
- Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
- The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure…
- the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be…
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- The style depends on the subject. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage
- I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry