More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
