arundelo comments on Rationality Quotes - September 2009 - Less Wrong

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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.