"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing……" — Bertrand Russell
"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."
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Bertrand Russell
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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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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all…
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
— Charles Babbage
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
— Francis Bacon
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
— James Agee
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
— Marlon Brando
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
— A. Whitney Brown
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