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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.
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More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
