Qouted
Home
On This Day
People
Quotes
Blogs
Histories
Search
Quotes
Total 16135 Quotes
Search
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Motives
About
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Eccentric
Opinion
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Fundamental
Cocksure
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Already
Dead
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Never
Beliefs
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Stupid
Accurate
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Unlikely
Uneasy
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Passions
Governed
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Approaching
Breakdown
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Question
Things
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Democracies
Honest
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.” ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Pretend
Probable
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Knowledge
Consider
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Superstition
Sources
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Hardest
Bridge
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Finding
Catch
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Certainty
Paralyzed
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Sooner
Think
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Anarchic
Comfortable