Bertrand Russell Quotes About Stupidity

• Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Stupid, School

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.441, Psychology Press

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Smart, Stupid

• When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Stupid, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.201, Routledge

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Ignorance, Imagination

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.676, Routledge

• Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupidity, Damage, Bias

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.121, Psychology Press

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Evil, Stupidity, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.143, Routledge

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