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Bertrand Russell Quotes about Belief

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Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

Bertrand Russell

Belief, Belief Systems, Programmes

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Bertrand Russell

Errors, Vagueness, Belief

Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.129, Psychology Press

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

Stupid, Belief, Foolish

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

Bertrand Russell

Belief, Firm Beliefs, Evidence

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Bertrand Russell

Thinking, Punishment, Belief

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.144, Routledge

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

Bertrand Russell

Belief, Rejected, Feels

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Race, Belief, Divine

Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.176, Psychology Press

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Bertrand Russell

Belief, Stoic, Skeptic

Bertrand Russell (1971). “Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire”, Allen & Unwin

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

Bertrand Russell

Believe, World, Belief

Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.38, Routledge

All movements go too far.

Bertrand Russell

Change, Movement, Belief

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.71, Routledge

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Bertrand Russell

Thinking, Belief, Certain

Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Bertrand Russell

Desire, Quests, Belief

Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2005). “Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.83, Psychology Press

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Bertrand Russell

Facts, Belief, Contrary

Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.35, Psychology Press

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

Bertrand Russell

Profound, Religion, Belief

Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Bertrand Russell

Democracy, Belief, Impossible

Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.400, Psychology Press

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

Bertrand Russell

Believe, Done, Belief

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

Bertrand Russell

People, Childhood, Belief

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.35, Routledge

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