Character Quote by John Stuart Mill

It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living;…

— John Stuart Mill

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

— Thomas Jefferson

“[Objectivity] cannot exist without mental flexibility, since none of us is objective by nature. We all have opinions, the roots of which are spread…

— J. F. Blumrich

Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how…

— Greg Graffin

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular…

— Herodotus

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no…

— John Locke

The human propensity to having opinions must, I guess, have started as a pretty useful evolutionary tool.

— Jesse Armstrong

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible…

— John Stuart Mill

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours…

— Anonymous