Bertrand Russell Quotes

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

College professors are suspect because whenever emotion is in control, anti-intellectualism prevails.

Isn't it in the nature of intellectuals to be culture critics?

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not only the justest thinkers.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

I don't like the intellectual label.

Italians think with their heads.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.

The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.