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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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. – Bertrand Russell

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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. – Bertrand Russell

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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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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. – Alfred North Whitehead

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God save me from him who studies but one book. – Italian Proverb

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The most violent element in society is ignorance. – Emma Goldman

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