The Stupid and The Clever

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand." -- Bertrand Russell

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"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give." -- Russell Bertrand

"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine." -- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), via Dog News

"There is much pleasure gained from useless knowledge." -- Bertrand Russell, via email from Carla

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." -- Bertrand Russell, via The Creative Tech Writer

"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine." -- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), via Dog News

Duty | "A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations." -- Bertrand Russell

"When the intesity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself." -- Bertrand Russell

"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who in in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself." -- Bertrand Russell