Famous John Stuart Mill Quotes

  • [T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible. – John Stuart Mill

    [T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.– John Stuart Mill

  • We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. – John Stuart Mill

    We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.– John Stuart Mill

  • The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. – John Stuart Mill

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

  • The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. – John Stuart Mill

    The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.– John Stuart Mill

  • Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. – John Stuart Mill

    Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.– John Stuart Mill

  • Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth. – John Stuart Mill

    Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth.– John Stuart Mill

  • The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice. – John Stuart Mill

    The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.– John Stuart Mill

  • Language is the light of the mind. – John Stuart Mill

    Language is the light of the mind.– John Stuart Mill

  • A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. – John Stuart Mill

    A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.– John Stuart Mill

  • One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests. – John Stuart Mill

    One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.– John Stuart Mill