John Stuart Mill Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

  John Stuart Mill

  Father, Atheism, Taught

• If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.

  John Stuart Mill

  Father, Training, May

  John Stuart Mill (2013). “Autobiography”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

• My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Memories, Father, Teaching

  "Autobiography". Book by John Stuart Mill, 1960.

• Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.15, 谷月社

• [My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on which nothing was known: that the question, "Who made me?" cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only throws the difficulty a step further back, since the question immediately presents itself, "Who made God?

  John Stuart Mill

  Father, Information, Firsts

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.19, 谷月社

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