Mortals and Others Quotes

“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell "Christian Ethics" from Marriage and Morals 1950 quoted from James A Haught ed 200, Mortals and Others

“To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others

“The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.”
― Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others

“Wealth can often purchase not only the semblance of love but its reality. This is unjust and undesirable but nonetheless a fact.”
― Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others

“Why do people read? The answer, as regards the great majority, is: 'They don't.”
― Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others

“Most people learn nothing from experience, except confirmation of their prejudices.”
― Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others

“Human nature is still, to a very great extent, regarded irrationally because it is pleasant to regard people as objects of praise and blame.”
― Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others

“...in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others