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Thinking Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from…
- The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth…
- I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings…
- To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt…
- In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
- The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing…
- 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.
- No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
- I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and…
- 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…
- Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always…
- 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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