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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and 
the intelligent are full of doubt 
--Bertrand Russell 

Even when all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken. 
--Bertrand Russell 

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life. 
--Bertrand Russell 

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: 
the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for 
the suffering of mankind. 
--Bertrand Russell 

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as 
wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and 
persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. 
--Bertrand Russell 

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. 
--Bertrand Russell 

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. 
I expostulated, but he replied: The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; 
that's fair. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race 
--Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order 

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. 
--Bertrand Russell 

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the 
most fatal to true happiness. 
--Bertrand Russell 

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the 
Gospels in praise of intelligence. 
--Bertrand Russell