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Comment author: thomblake 01 September 2009 07:55:37PM 13 points [-]

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

-Bertrand Russell

Comment author: arundelo 24 December 2014 04:08:42PM 1 point [-]

According to Wikiquote, the original (from the essay collection Mortals and Others) is:

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Comment author: dclayh 01 September 2009 10:33:04PM 1 point [-]

A cursory Google search doesn't reveal the date of this quote. Do you know if it was before or after Yeats's version of 1919? (Wikipedia claims that Yeats was inspired by Shelley...)

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 02 September 2009 03:05:15AM 2 points [-]

1933

Comment author: dclayh 02 September 2009 03:08:45AM 2 points [-]

Ah, thank you. So it is quite likely that he had read the Yeats, then.

Comment author: thomblake 01 September 2009 11:54:33PM 1 point [-]

For all I know, it could be misattributed. From a random quotable file.

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