Assuming Quote by John Stuart Mill

“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to…

— John Stuart Mill

“[For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is…

— John Stuart Mill

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same…

— John Stuart Mill

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

— George Henry Lewes

It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the…

— John Stuart Mill

“Those who would suppress an opinion (it is assumed that they are honest) deny its truth, but they are not infallible. They may be…

— John Bagnell Bury

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support…

— David J. Lieberman

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory,…

— Milan Kundera

“There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted,…

— John Stuart Mill

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

— Michel de Montaigne

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination…

— Aristotle