Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; un…

John Stuart Mill
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Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds ✨ John Stuart Mill (1859). On Liberty, p.95
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