What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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