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Sure Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic…
- I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when…
- A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure…
- Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired…
- Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though…
- Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
- Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
- Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
- 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…
- The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so…
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- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
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- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
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- If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. — Jane Austen
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. — Richard Bach
- I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure. — Sebastian Bach
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