"The resistance to a new idea increases by……" — Bertrand Russell

"The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance."

— Bertrand Russell

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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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More Idea Quotes

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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and… — Paul Auster
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no… — Lance Armstrong
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium… — Antonin Artaud
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity… — Chinua Achebe
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I… — Chinua Achebe
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and… — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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