Here are the very best Bertrand Russell quotes on education, war and religion.Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic
Bertrand Russell Quotes on Education
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“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know”
― Bertrand Russell
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
― Bertrand Russell
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
― Bertrand Russell
“We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.”
― Bertrand Russell
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
― Bertrand Russell
“So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes on War
“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”
― Bertrand Russell
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”
― Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
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
Bertrand Russell Quotes on Religion
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ”
― Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Quotes on Fear
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”
― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
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