The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
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...)
1933
Ah, thank you. So it is quite likely that he had read the Yeats, then.
For all I know, it could be misattributed. From a random quotable file.
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.
-Bertrand Russell
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...)
1933
Ah, thank you. So it is quite likely that he had read the Yeats, then.
For all I know, it could be misattributed. From a random quotable file.
According to Wikiquote, the original (from the essay collection Mortals and Others) is: