Bertrand Russell Quotes About Wisdom
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Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
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Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
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Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
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The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
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The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
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Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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