No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAristotle 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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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 – a beauty cold and austere.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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