Quote by Bertrand Russell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell

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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. – Bertrand Russell

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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. – Bertrand Russell

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The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. – Stokely Carmichael

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Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. – Terry Goodkind

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I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn. – Polykarp Kusch

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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. – Andrew Carnegie

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Theres none so blind as they that wont see. – Jonathan Swift

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. – Niels Bohr

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