Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, f…

Bertrand Russell
649 citations
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2014). The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, p.554, Routledge
Politics
14

More Author Quotes

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; i … ▶
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). Marriage and Morals, p.80, … ▶
The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. ✨ Bertrand Russell (1987). Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and … ▶
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. ✨ Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950, p.205, Psychology Press
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 … ▶

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2014). The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, p.554, Routledge

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes