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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
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.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
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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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself

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