Bertrand Russell Quotes

Biography: Bertrand Russell was a renowned British philosopher, logician, and soc... more Biography: Bertrand Russell was a renowned British philosopher, logician, and social critic. He is best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Throughout his career, Russell wrote extensively on a wide range of subjects, championing social reform, education, and peace, earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. less

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.""The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.""Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.""The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.""Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.""To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can 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.""It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.""Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.""The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.""To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.""The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.""Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.""War does not determine who is right - only who is left.""The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."

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