Knows Quotes by Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

— Bertrand Russell

Americans need rest, but do not know it.

— Bertrand Russell

We know too much and feel too little.

— Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

— Bertrand Russell

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

— Bertrand Russell

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

— Bertrand Russell

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

— Bertrand Russell

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought…

— Bertrand Russell

The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

— Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

— Bertrand Russell

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know…

— Bertrand Russell

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good…

— Bertrand Russell

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why…

— Bertrand Russell

[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'.…

— Bertrand Russell

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire…

— Bertrand Russell

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist…

— Bertrand Russell

We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it…

— Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority…

— Bertrand Russell

When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare…

— Bertrand Russell

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.…

— 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

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source…

— Bertrand Russell

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided…

— Bertrand Russell

I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or…

— Bertrand Russell

Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable…

— Bertrand Russell

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy…

— Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception…

— Bertrand Russell

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have…

— Bertrand Russell

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime…

— Bertrand Russell

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all…

— Bertrand Russell

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

— Bertrand Russell

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an…

— Bertrand Russell

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were…

— Bertrand Russell

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he…

— Bertrand Russell

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain…

— Bertrand Russell

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances…

— Bertrand Russell

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that…

— Bertrand Russell