Bertrand Russell quotes

" To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. " # Death and Dying # Love # Fear

" The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Doubt # Stupidity

" If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. " # Fools and Foolishness # Age and Aging # Money

" Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. " # Opinions # Eccentricity # Fear

" Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. " # Education # Stupidity # Ignorance

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. " # Belief

" So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. " # Gospel # Praise # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge. " # Life and Living # Knowledge # Love

" One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. " # Health # Belief # Work

" Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. " # Thoughts and Thinking