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Quote DB :: Authors :: Bertrand Russell :: View Quote View Quote "Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Bertrand Russell Listed in: Thinking Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.64  Rate Quote 14 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Bertrand Russell "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." "We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." "A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short." "The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get." "Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." Top 5 quotes from Thinking "There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord." "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses." "What once was thought can never be unthought." "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

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