"The problem with the wise is they are……" — Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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…
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole… — Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every… — J. J. Abrams
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're… — Dave Attell
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political… — Margaret Atwood
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses… — Margaret Atwood
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen

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