Bertrand Russell



The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts

















The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

















Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.























In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

























If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years

























If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.























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

















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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.















Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government

















Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise












A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand