More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
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.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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.
