"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."

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Source : John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.183, Hackett Publishing

John Stuart Mill

#Truth Quotes #Home Quotes #Experience Quotes

“In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice.”
“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
“Well, one thing that I like to do is treat the audience as if they're already kind of at the table - they're already a part of the conversation. They don't need the 101 explanation. It's as if bringing a stranger to the table to sit down with these people who are already acting as peers or friends and opening up and just sharing their stories.”
“Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.”
“I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.169
“No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals”

Source : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall,”

Source : Antony Beevor (2003). “The Fall of Berlin 1945”, p.30, Penguin
“Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.”

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