Quote by Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the

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

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. – Bertrand Russell

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other peoples happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. – Bertrand Russell

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Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. – Christopher Andrea

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Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. – Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. – Frank Zappa

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. – William G. McAdoo

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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. – Bernard Berenson

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Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. – Lois Wyse

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This mornings scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land. – Du Fu

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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. – John le Carre

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