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Bertrand Russell Quotes about Learning

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell
Learning, Knowledge, Parenting
Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Bertrand Russell
Learning, Language, Programming
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.106, Routledge

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

Bertrand Russell
Encouragement, Learning, Science
Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.86, Psychology Press

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Bertrand Russell
Learning, Science, Discovery
Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.168, Psychology Press

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