“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Bertrand Russell
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Bertrand Russell
Russell cribbed that line from W B Yeats’s poem The Second Coming:
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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