More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
