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Learning Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- 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…
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
- Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
- Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same…
- Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
- For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.
- The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness…
- Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
- When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,…
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