Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. ... Read more

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever ... Read more

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to ... Read more

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more