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Quotes by John Stuart Mill - (17 quotes)

John Stuart Mill - From the Belief category:

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Business category:

There is now scarcely any outlet for energy in this country except business. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Creativity category:

The great creative individual... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Danger category:

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Doubt category:

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Eccentricity category:

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Freedom category:

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Gender category:

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Greatness category:

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds? (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Happiness category:

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Individuality category:

What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Individuality category:

The great creative individual... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Mediocrity category:

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Originality category:

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Power category:

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one – if he had the power – would be justified in silencing mankind. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Rules category:

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. (John Stuart Mill)

John Stuart Mill - From the Thinking category:

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. (John Stuart Mill)