Quotes by Bertrand Russell
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
- Bertrand Russell
Math may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
- Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell
All human activity is prompted by desire.
- Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Bertrand Russell
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution
- Bertrand Russell
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.
- Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
- Bertrand Russell
Beware the man of a single book.
- Bertrand Russell
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
- Bertrand Russell
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
- Bertrand Russell
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- Bertrand Russell
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Bertrand Russell
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
- Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.
- Bertrand Russell
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell