Bertrand Russell Quotes About Stupidity
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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
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Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
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When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
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