« All Kind Quotes · Bertrand Russell's Page
Kind Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will…
- [There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
- I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
- More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for…
- Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is…
- It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe…
- An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right…
- One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring…
- Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people…
- If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held…
- Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting…
- We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but…
- I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in…
- Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater…
- Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other,…
- You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the…
- Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be…
- Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery
More Kind Quotes
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd