Absence Quote by John Stuart Mill

Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to…

— Frances Wright

We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our…

— Edward R. Murrow

Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide…

— Michelle Dean

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing…

— John Stuart Mill

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

— Mark Twain

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter,…

— Zhuangzi

“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

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the…

— Blaise Pascal

“If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested,…

— Carl Sagan

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

— Edwin Newman

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of…

— John Stuart Mill

Sometimes the unsaid words remain in our soul forever. Some other times they are concealed and buried alive in the silence of our heart.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti