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vick
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vick asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

You Choose!!!!!?

Which one is your Favorite quote out of the following ones?

1) A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ----- Bertrand Russell

2.) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ----- Bertrand Russell

3.) I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. ----- Bertrand Russell

4.) It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. ----- Bertrand Russell

5.) Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. ------ Bertrand Russell

6.) Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. ------ Bertrand Russell

7.) Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ----- Bertrand Russell

Update:

Please feel free to answer with some of your favrite quotes by ur favorite philosophers

Thanks

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    my favorite is number 1, becuase stupid people dont understand a word i say in fact i say something and no one responds but somebody else says the same thing five minutes later and everyone thinks it is a great idea.That has happened multiple times

  • 1 decade ago

    Given the selection I like the seventh the best!

    A personal quote:

    The problem with democracy is that you cannot expect the common lot to appreciate the value things they cannot comprehend!

    Mic Powell.

  • 1 decade ago

    I personally like number 4. It's hilarious enough and yet so true!

  • 1 decade ago

    #6

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    1 decade ago

    #5 is so true! you gotta be the jerk or else you get stepped on and forgotten...

  • 1 decade ago

    4

    Life is too short to be angry. ME

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