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Chief Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- 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…
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for…
- Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and…
- Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.
- At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as…
- The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can…
- To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a…
- One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
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- The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler
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- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. — Hugh Blair
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- The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. — H. P. Blavatsky
- Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. — Napoleon Bonaparte