 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
When we have acquired the habit of impersonal thinking we shall be able to view the popular beliefs of our own nation, our own class, or our own religious sect with the same detachment with which we view those of others. We shall discover that the beliefs that are held most firmly and most passionately are very often those for which there is least evidence. ... The best cure for this tendency is the practice of going by the evidence, and forgoing certainty where evidence is lacking.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Portraits from Memory, and Other Essays,1956
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