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Quote DB :: Authors :: Bertrand Russell :: View Quote View Quote "The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Bertrand Russell Listed in: Anger, Facts Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.8  Rate Quote 10 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Bertrand Russell "We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." "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." "Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." "What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." Top 5 quotes from Anger, Facts "Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism." "For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are." "The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get." "There are no facts, only interpretations." "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."

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