The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Bertrand Russell'The Triumph of Stupidity', Mortals and Others (1933)
About Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician and Nobel laureate in Literature. (1872-1970)
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- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.What I Believe (1925)
- One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
- The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'A Liberal Decalogue', New York Times Magazine (1951)
- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.'A Liberal Decalogue', New York Times Magazine (1951)
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967)
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- Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.Walt Whitman
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- We turn not older with years, but newer every day.Emily Dickinson
- In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank
- Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.Virginia Woolf
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