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

Bertrand Russell

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
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
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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Healthy Philosophy
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
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
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
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

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