No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNever try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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 fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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