Bertrand Russell Quotes

Much of the world's difficulties are due to the fact that the ignorant are completely confident and the intelligent are full of doubts.

In all activities, it is healthy, from time to time, to question those things that have long been taken for granted.

Lacking some of the things one desires is a necessary condition for happiness.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Do not fear being eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Being able to fill leisure time in an intelligent way is the ultimate result of civilization.

Mathematics possess not only truth, but also a certain supreme beauty. A cold and austere beauty, like that of a sculpture.

No matter how eloquently a dog barks, it can never tell you that its parents were poor but honest.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

All human activity is motivated by desire or impulse.

The ability of science to survive in the long run depends on psychology; that is, it depends on what human beings desire.

The prudent man only thinks about his difficulties when it serves a purpose. When it doesn't, he thinks about something else.