Civil liberties Quote by John Stuart Mill

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

— John Stuart Mill

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

— 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

“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

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is…

— Georg Cantor

“My argument is only that the intensity of belief in an idea or the reach of its acceptance is no guarantee of its validity.…

— Bilahari P S Kausikan

“It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us…

— Brittney Ryan

“People prefer opinions to truth. They try to bend the world to fit their assumptions, instead of changing their assumptions to fit the world.…

— Elizabeth C. Mock

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

“We very often express in a categorical form a judgment of which we do not feel assured, we even lay stress on its absolute…

— Lev Shestov

“the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions…

— John Stuart Mill