Bertrand Russell Quotes
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of powGet Image
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.Get Image
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.Get Image
Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.Get Image
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.Get Image
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