Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELLEven if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true 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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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It 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.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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