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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell
Education, Confidence, Wisdom

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Wish, World
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Mortals and Others”, p.318, Routledge

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Argument, Grasshoppers

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Intelligent, Hatred
Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.403, Psychology Press

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Children, Winter
Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Class, Community
Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Time, Real
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Opinion, Impossible
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.126, Psychology Press

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Essence, Sake
Bertrand Russell (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.160, Psychology Press

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Science, Giving
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.66, 谷月社

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Ego, Firsts
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.666, Routledge

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Children, Husband
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.553, Routledge

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

Bertrand Russell
Wise, Wisdom, Emotional
"Distilled Wisdom". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145, 1964.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Men, Wit

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

Bertrand Russell
Wise, Wisdom, Civilization
Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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