"Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less……" — Bertrand Russell
"Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site.
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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More Curious Quotes
This quote is filed under Curious Quotes,
one of 911 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
— Paul Auster
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I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family…
— Michele Bachmann
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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
— David Bailey
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he…
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with…
— Ellen Barkin
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who…
— Bruce Barton
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they…
— Isaiah Berlin
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It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich,…
— Vinoba Bhave
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I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on.…
— Nicolas Cage
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce…
— Oswald Chambers
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how…
— Agatha Christie
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