John Stuart Mill Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Real, Understanding

  John Stuart Mill (1913). “On Liberty: The philosophical work that changed society for ever”, p.42, Harriman House Limited

• To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

  John Stuart Mill

  Understanding, One Woman

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.431, OUP Oxford

• If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Understanding, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism”, p.71

• 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.

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