Habits Quotes by Bertrand Russell

“The habit of thinking in terms of comparison is a fatal one.”

— Bertrand Russell

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

— Bertrand Russell

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

— Bertrand Russell

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

— Bertrand Russell

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring…

— Bertrand Russell

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really'…

— Bertrand Russell

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and…

— Bertrand Russell

“The habit of considering a man’s religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job…

— Bertrand Russell

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in…

— Bertrand Russell

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,…

— Bertrand Russell

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

— Bertrand Russell

“To begin with rationality in opinion: I should define it merely as the habit of taking account of all relevant evidence in…

— Bertrand Russell

“Those who have a scientific outlook on human behaviour, moreover, find it impossible to label any action as ‘sin’; they realise that…

— Bertrand Russell

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means…

— Bertrand Russell

I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where…

— Bertrand Russell

No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does…

— Bertrand Russell

When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact…

— Bertrand Russell

“Narcissism is, in a sense, the converse of an habitual sense of sin; it consists in the habit of admiring oneself and…

— Bertrand Russell

One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that…

— Bertrand Russell

“I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed…

— Bertrand Russell