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"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"
"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
Explore more quotes by John Stuart Mill
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."
"It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions."
"The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
"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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