Sample Essays & Free Papers For You

A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.

Quotations

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. SwiftPapers now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
A
B
C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Bertrand Russell Quotes

«Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Fear, Wisdom | Keywords: endeavour
«Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life»
«The splendor of human life, I feel sure, is greater to those who are not dazzled by the divine radiance»
«The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others»
«Ants and savages put strangers to death»
«Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.»
«Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.»
«Those who first advocated religious toleration were thought wicked, and so were the early opponents of slavery.»
«To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.»
«On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge»