Inspirational Quotations by Bertrand Russell

  • It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly,
    just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
    From Issue 160
  • The trouble with the world is that
    the stupid are cocksure and
    the intelligent are full of doubt.
    From Issue 235
  • Intelligence is not to make any mistakes,
    but quickly to see how to make them good.
    From Issue 240
  • Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
    From Issue 261
  • To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
    From Issue 285
  • One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous
    breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
    From Issue 307
  • Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
    From Issue 354
  • A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not endured with patient resignation.
    From Issue 379
  • Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
    From Issue 385
  • To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
    From Issue 387
  • Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
    From Issue 390
  • The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
    From Issue 392
  • Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.
    From Issue 394

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