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Before Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and…
- The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three…
- One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity…
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought…
- William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but…
- To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is…
- I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a…
- From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.…
- There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels?…
- Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood