Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRSwas a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense". He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 May 1872
Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.
Cruelty is in theory a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd