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Wisdom and certainty

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 29, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories knowledgeTags Bertrand Russell

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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