Ability Quote by John Stuart Mill Download Open image “When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.” — John Stuart Mill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Ideas
The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error. — Richard Henry Pratt Copy Share Image
“This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.” — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts. — Henry Heimlich Copy Share Image
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of… — John Thune Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
