The best Quotes by Bertrand Russell

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than at imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armour of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence. The world needs open hearts and open minds, and it is not through rigid systems, whether old or new, that these can be derived.

Upbringing Education

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Time

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Doubt

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Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

Bob Marley

Love

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

Indira Gandhi

Tolerance World

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan

World

Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Curiosity

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Curiosity Falling in love

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

War Warriors

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

War Waiting

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Upbringing

Children have got to be free to lead their own lives.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

Children & Childhood Upbringing

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

Usher

Education

It's wrong to think that an educational system could work without conveying values!

Roman Herzog

Education

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Pain Time

But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Michael Ende in Momo - und die grauen Herren

Time Daily Routine

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Helmut Schmidt

Foolishness Intelligence Doubt

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Garden Libraries

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memories Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness Present

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness Minutes

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Immanuel Kant

Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

Lies

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

Humanity Death

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

Hatred

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love Soul Friendship

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Aristotle

Snow Winter Coldness

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire

To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love Letters

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Foolishness Quotes to think about

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

By playing for one hour, you can get to know someone better, than by talking for a year.

Plato

Playing

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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