1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.Â

It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you decide – and boredom is a decision – that you are bored.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Organizing your leisure effectively is the highest level of civilization.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.