Believe Quotes by Bertrand Russell

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

— Bertrand Russell

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.

— Bertrand Russell

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

— Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

— Bertrand Russell

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

— Bertrand Russell

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

— Bertrand Russell

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

— Bertrand Russell

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

— Bertrand Russell

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he…

— Bertrand Russell

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something…

— Bertrand Russell

Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason.…

— Bertrand Russell

There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to…

— Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any…

— Bertrand Russell

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe…

— Bertrand Russell

I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the…

— Bertrand Russell

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

— Bertrand Russell

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is…

— Bertrand Russell

Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in…

— Bertrand Russell

I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there…

— Bertrand Russell

William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are…

— Bertrand Russell

I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation…

— Bertrand Russell

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs…

— Bertrand Russell

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in…

— Bertrand Russell

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of…

— Bertrand Russell

There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and…

— Bertrand Russell

In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt…

— Bertrand Russell

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this…

— Bertrand Russell

Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not…

— Bertrand Russell

People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or…

— Bertrand Russell

You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the…

— Bertrand Russell

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

— Bertrand Russell

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

— Bertrand Russell

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

— Bertrand Russell

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to…

— Bertrand Russell

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like…

— Bertrand Russell

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

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It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are…

— Bertrand Russell

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if…

— Bertrand Russell

Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with…

— Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with…

— Bertrand Russell