How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

John Stuart Mill

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

John Stuart Mill

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

John Stuart Mill

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

John Stuart Mill

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

John Stuart Mill

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

John Stuart Mill

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.

John Stuart Mill

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

John Stuart Mill

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

John Stuart Mill