7 Quotes by John Stuart Mill about opinion




  • Author John Stuart Mill
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    First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of the truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

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    If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thankthem for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoicethat there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought,if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality ofour convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves.

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    No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.

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    هنالك فرق عظيم جداً بين الافتراض بأن رأيا معيناً هو رأي سديد لأنه لم يدحض أو يفند في كل فرصة للنيل منه .. وبين الافتراض بصحته لأجل عدم السماع بتفنيده ودحضه

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