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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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 demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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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Endurance Patience People Relationship
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
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
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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Book Enjoyment Reading
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

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