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

—Bertrand Russell

About Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an English mathematician and philosopher. A founder of analytic philosophy, he was a leading philosopher of the 20th century who produced pioneering work in logic, set theory, and philosophy of language. Russell popularised philosophy to...

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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

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

—Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

—Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

—Bertrand Russell

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

—Bertrand Russell

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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

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

—Arthur Golden

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more… doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

—Albert Guerard

Getting a living under capitalism… is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.

—Eugene V. Debs

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

—James Thurber

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