1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.

A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

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.

I feel as if one would only discover on one’s death bed what one ought to have lived for.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way.

Thinking you know when in fact you don’t is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.