Bertrand Russell Quotes

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

Bertrand Russell

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Best
  • Rest

• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Courage
  • Tolerance
  • Test

• I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Real
  • Soul

• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
  • True
  • Education
  • College

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Women
  • Power
  • True

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Political
  • Environmental

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
  • More

• I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • True
  • Water

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Faith

• I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happen

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • World

• We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Fear

• When you work in a culture that thrives on innovation and is constantly moving into unchartered territory, you're going to hit dead ends. But to be successful over the long term, remember what you've learned and move on from it quickly.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Work
  • Long
  • Remember

• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • True
  • Faith