Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Bertrand Russell quotes, Bertrand Russell sayings, and Bertrand Russell proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.Bertrand Russell
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Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.Bertrand Russell
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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
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.Bertrand Russell
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.Bertrand Russell
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While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.Bertrand Russell
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Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.Bertrand Russell
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.Bertrand Russell
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A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.Bertrand Russell
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Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.Bertrand Russell
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.Bertrand Russell
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.Bertrand Russell
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.Bertrand Russell
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.Bertrand Russell
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What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learned as a task but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty.Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.Bertrand Russell
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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
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Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.Bertrand Russell
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To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.Bertrand Russell
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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations.Bertrand Russell
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.Bertrand Russell
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.Bertrand Russell
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The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.Bertrand Russell
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.Bertrand Russell
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To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.Bertrand Russell
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.Bertrand Russell
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.Bertrand Russell
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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.Bertrand Russell