There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Quote by John Stuart Mill
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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John Stuart Mill Quotes
- Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
- Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
- Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
- The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
- Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
- The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
- The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
- The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Best Quotes
- The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
- Hard work pays, evil doesn't.
- It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
- At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
- Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
- Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
- There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
- The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
- An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.