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Whole Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit…
- ... 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…
- 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 cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description,…
- 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 action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color…
- 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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