John Stuart Mill Quotes

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

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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Religion

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
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• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Truth
  • Plan
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• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Truth Is

• A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Truth Is

• If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Truth
  • You
  • Measure

• I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Behind
  • Preach

• The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Truth
  • Man

• I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Think

• The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Cannot
  • Deceived

• If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Truth
  • Happy
  • Culture

• Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • God
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Satisfied
  • Real Life

• I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

  

  Andrew Fastow
  • Deserve
  • Prison
  • Punishment

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• With 'Chicago Hope,' I'm seeing if anyone will like me again.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Hope
  • Chicago

• 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
  • Truth
  • Advantage
  • Rediscover