More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
