Bertrand Russell Quotes

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

Know thyself.

There is a cleansing humility about doubt.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.