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"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest."
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"Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends."

"People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead."

"When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don't be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If you are filled with untruths, those characteristics make it hard for anyone to believe in you."

"It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut-it's the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts."

"Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple," he had told her, "can't you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying?"

"While stabbing someones back, you recklessly expose your own."
Explore more quotes by Bertrand Russell

"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."

"So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it."

"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

"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."

"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
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