The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
The stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Do not be afraid of being wrong; just be afraid of being uninteresting.
The only way to deal with people who are wrong is to put them in positions where they can do as little harm as possible.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and again to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell Quotes part 2
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The mark of a civilized man is the ability to read a column of numbers.
Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
The most important things in life are not things.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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