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More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.