John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill, (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist

John Stuart Mill Quote

“If any opinion be compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.”

John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill
~ John Stuart Mill

On Liberty, 1859

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Joe, North Caldwell, NJ

While I know what he was trying to say, opinions, by definition, are neither true nor false.

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