The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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