John Stuart Mill Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Thinking, Errors

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.62

• the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wise, Character, Men

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.12

• The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

  John Stuart Mill

  Science, Men, Thinking

• As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Study, Conclusion

  'Auguste Comte and Positivism' (1865) pt. 1, p. 82

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