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comment by briandmyers

I'm guessing you know that you just paraphrased Bertrand Russell -

    The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

    Bertrand Russell

(It's not my intention to call anyone stupid, though)





kleinbl00  ·  3045 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Everything clever I ever said, Bertrand Russell said it first and better.

user-inactivated  ·  3045 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Who, I think, was paraphrasing Yeats.. Mortals and Others was published in the 30s, The Second Coming in the 20s. Unless they both got it from somewhere else. lil?

briandmyers  ·  3045 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge

Charles Darwin, in 'Descent of Man', 1871