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Truth Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- ... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
- Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly…
- The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...…
- 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…
- The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but…
- Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political…
- The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The…
- 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…
- 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…
- In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth…
- There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
- Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
- The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,…
- 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…
- The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth…
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