Bertrand Russell Quotes

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970

Topics

FearWisdomBeginningConquerSource

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

NaturalTooUnnatural

I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.

Megan Mullally

New YorkPeopleNobodyNewThree

I'm really insecure about everything.

Megan Fox

EverythingInsecureAboutReally

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

John King

FunPeopleConflictDetailsInsight

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Angela Carter

DinnerRulesTableNowDinner Table

Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

GoodPeopleImpossibleBad People

Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

GoodBusinessProblemDoingHelp

If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world.

Michael Schenker

WorldLookUniquenessColorfulWould

I encourage women who are starting families to think about the five-year horizon. The first few years of parenthood are really hard, but if you stick it out, it gets easier.

Julia Hartz

WomenThinkHorizonYouFirstHard

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

Juan Felipe Herrera

PoetryPeopleSpeakLanguageDream

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

Douglas Coupland

FunnyNothingCheapBeingCure

I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.

Cherie Blair

TimeSpeakLearnYouRightOut

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