"A man of clear ideas errs grievously if……" — John Stuart Mill
"A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it."
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248 Quotes by John Stuart Mill
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