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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Motivational, Fear
Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Government, Intelligence
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.2, Psychology Press

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Success, Confidence

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Funny, Patience

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Funny, Witty

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Success, Wisdom
Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Philosophy, Believe

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Children, Pain
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.3, Routledge

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Learning, Shining
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.153, Routledge

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Happiness, Happy
Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.176, Psychology Press

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Funny, Book
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Inspirational, Life
Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Fear, Coward

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Men, Average
Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.427, Psychology Press

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Curious, Pleasant
Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.303, Psychology Press

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