How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?" - Meaning and context.">
As quoted in Egoists: A Book of Supermen (1909) by James Huneker, p. 367

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

— John Stuart Mill

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John Stuart Mill

About John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.