John Stuart Mill Quotes
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
John Stuart Mill
Quotes to Explore
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries.
L.A. Weatherly
Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
Forest Whitaker
A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
W. E. B. Du Bois
My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
Warren Zevon
I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.
Lesley Lawson
I refuse to make uninspired music.
Ben Harper
A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.
Tomas Transtromer
Danki,” John said. But Naomi noticed he didn’t look very happy about it. Nick pulled the van up to the ER entrance and they piled in—Naomi and Leah in.
Barbara Cameron
The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.
Samuel Freeman Miller
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
John Stuart Mill