Respect Quote by John Stuart Mill

“We need some controversy every now and then. Without it, we would never know where we stand as individuals: with the crowd or by…

— K. Weikel

“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps…

— Christopher Lasch

“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.”

— Boris Pasternak

“The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception…

— Samuel Johnson

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now…

— John Stuart Mill

“When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when you can…

— Idries Shah

“We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.”

— Marlena De Blasi

“The Sunday Tidings, which had for some years been pursing a policy of intellectual sensationalism, had never found it easy to maintain its supply…

— John Wyndham

“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with…

— Wally Lamb

“Yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the…

— Jane Austen

“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was…

— Ursula K. Le Guin