Wisdom Quotes by Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

— Bertrand Russell

“In a wise community a wise man would not seem foolish!”

— Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. --Bertrand Russell

— Bertrand Russell

Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.

— Bertrand Russell

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

— Bertrand Russell

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

— Bertrand Russell

“I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.”

— Bertrand Russell

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

— Bertrand Russell

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

— Bertrand Russell

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

— Bertrand Russell

“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”

— Bertrand Russell

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

“Reverence for human personality is the beginning of wisdom, in every social question, but above all in education.”

— Bertrand Russell

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without repining the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our…

— Bertrand Russell

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably…

— Bertrand Russell

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a…

— Bertrand Russell

“With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in…

— Bertrand Russell

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of…

— Bertrand Russell

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument…

— Bertrand Russell

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it…

— Bertrand Russell

From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a…

— Bertrand Russell

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right…

— Bertrand Russell

“I must, I must before I die find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have…

— Bertrand Russell

“Has the universe any unity of plan or purpose, or is it a fortuitous concourse of atoms? Is conciousness a permanent part…

— Bertrand Russell

The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent…

— Bertrand Russell

“No man is fit to educate unless he feels each pupil an end in himself, with his own rights and his own…

— Bertrand Russell

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems…

— Bertrand Russell

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what…

— Bertrand Russell

“Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had…

— Bertrand Russell

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the…

— Bertrand Russell

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

— Bertrand Russell

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

— Bertrand Russell

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of…

— Bertrand Russell

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

— Bertrand Russell

“When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.”

— Bertrand Russell