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More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
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, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.