More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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.
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.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
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.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
