Analysis Quote by Arne Klingenberg

The primary cause of trouble in the world is the fact that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

— Lekan Wahab

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

— Anonymous

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In fact, there is good scientific evidence to support the notion that being really intelligent and knowledgeable can be a disadvantage to some thinkers…

— Robert Carroll

“The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe it just happened by blind chance...the obvious alternative to chance is an…

— Richard Dawkins

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

— Timothy Zahn

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a…

— Lewis Wolpert

“There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and…

— Joe Abercrombie

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

— John le Carre