Inspirational Quotes by Bertrand Russell

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

— Bertrand Russell

Worry is a form of fear.

— Bertrand Russell

It's coexistence or no existence.

— Bertrand Russell

Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.

— Bertrand Russell

We know too much and feel too little.

— Bertrand Russell

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

— Bertrand Russell

What is matter? Never mind.

— Bertrand Russell

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

— Bertrand Russell

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

— Bertrand Russell

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.

— Bertrand Russell

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

— Bertrand Russell

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

— Bertrand Russell

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

— Bertrand Russell

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

— Bertrand Russell

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

— Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…

— 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

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

— Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

— Bertrand Russell

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

— Bertrand Russell

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

— Bertrand Russell

“To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I…

— Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…

— Bertrand Russell

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for…

— Bertrand Russell

Some people would rather die than think.

— Bertrand Russell

Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

— Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

— Bertrand Russell

Do not feel certain of anything.

— Bertrand Russell

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

— Bertrand Russell

Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

— Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

— Bertrand Russell

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

— Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

— Bertrand Russell

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

— Bertrand Russell