This page features a selection of the best quotes by John Stuart Mill. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by John Stuart Mill in no particular order: Those only are happy … who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit … Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. – Autobiography, ch. 5 …
“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that” – a classic reading from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.” John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Chapter 2 The following reading is from chapter 2 of On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. Throughout chapter 2, Mill discusses the harms …