John Stuart Mill Quote

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.


Ch. 7: General View of the Remainder of My Life (p. 184) - Autobiography (1873)


Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large...

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large...

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large...

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large...