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vick
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vick asked in Education & ReferenceQuotations · 1 decade ago

Which one of the following is your favorite quote?

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 add your own personal favorite quote if you like by a philosopher

Thanks

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    Great minds discuss ideas

    Average minds discuss events

    Small minds discuss people...

    (Eleanor Roosevelt)

  • 1 decade ago

    The Bertrand Russell quote for sure.

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    I like 3.

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  • Nort
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Number 7

    APAK has the best quote from E. Roosevelt in my opinion.

  • Catie
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Be kind. Everyone is fighting a hard battle. ~ Plato

    Paradise is where I am. ~Aristotle

  • 1 decade ago

    #3. Nothing is worth dying for.

  • 1 decade ago

    "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

  • 1 decade ago

    "All men by nature desire to know" -Aristotle

  • I like them all THX!! :)

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